bourdonner
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#98,820
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bourdonner is aFrenchverb. It means: Émettre un bourdonnement en parlant principalement des battements d’ailes des insectes, des petits oiseaux. Pronounced \buʁ.dɔ.ne\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourdonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \buʁ.dɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bourdonner is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \buʁ.dɔ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #98,820 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bourdonner in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bourdonner, spelled B-O-U-R-D-O-N-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Émettre un bourdonnement en parlant principalement des battements d’ailes des insectes, des petits oiseaux.
- 2Fait qu’un objet, qu’une machine, qu’une surface émette des vibrations plus ou moins sonores.
- 3Quand un grand nombre de personnes émettent un murmure sourd et confus en discutant entre elles.
- 4Ressentir un bruit sourd et lancinant dans sa tête.
- 5S’agiter, bouillonner en parlant d’un lieu ou de personnes.
- 6Fredonner une chanson à mi-voix entre ses dents.
- 7Importuner par des paroles, des lamentations, des discours.
- 8Faire résonner une cloche sans la sonner en branle.
- 9Émettre un bourdon.
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Frequency rank: #98,820 in French
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