bourdonnais
\buʁ.dɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“bourdonnais” is uncommon French (frequency #80,943 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,943
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Bourdon, commune française située dans le département de la Somme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourdonnais · bourdonnais · French
bourdonnais · rank #80,943 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,943
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bourmont
Nearest frequency peer: Bourmont (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bourdonnais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bougeais
bougeais
19,062 corpus weight
- Boumediene
Boumediene
19,060 corpus weight
- bourdonnais
bourdonnais
19,058 corpus weight
- Bourmont
Bourmont
19,057 corpus weight
- brandissait
brandissait
19,056 corpus weight
- braquet
braquet
19,055 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourdonnais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourdonnais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \buʁ.dɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourdonnais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourdonnais is uncommon French at frequency #80,943 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \buʁ.dɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bourdonnais, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bourdonnais, spelled B-O-U-R-D-O-N-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Bourdon, commune française située dans le département de la Somme.
- 2Relatif à Bourdons-sur-Rognon, commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Marne.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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