bourdonne
\buʁ.dɔn\
The verdict
“bourdonne” is uncommon French (frequency #79,997 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,997
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de bourdonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourdonne · bourdonne · French
bourdonne · rank #79,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,997
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouchain
Nearest frequency peer: bouchain (-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 « bourdonne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Borinage
Borinage
20,007 corpus weight
- bouchain
bouchain
20,005 corpus weight
- bourdonne
bourdonne
20,004 corpus weight
- bouté
bouté
20,003 corpus weight
- Bouvines
Bouvines
20,002 corpus weight
- brahmane
brahmane
20,001 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourdonne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourdonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \buʁ.dɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourdonne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourdonne is uncommon French at frequency #79,997 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \buʁ.dɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
bourdonne has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bourdonne, spelled B-O-U-R-D-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de bourdonner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de bourdonner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de bourdonner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de bourdonner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de bourdonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourdonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le seul bruit qu’on y entende, c’est le sabot d’un âne ou d’un mulet qui arrache une étincelle aux cailloux luisants du pavé ou le fron-fron monotone d’une guitare qui bourdonne au fond d’une cour intérieure.
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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