bourdons
\buʁ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“bourdons” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,755. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,755
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bourdon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourdons · bourdons · French
bourdons · rank #47,755 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,755
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bolivien
Nearest frequency peer: Bolivien (-2 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourdons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blaster
blaster
52,249 corpus weight
- Bolivien
Bolivien
52,248 corpus weight
- bourdons
bourdons
52,246 corpus weight
- brailler
brailler
52,244 corpus weight
- branchies
branchies
52,243 corpus weight
- broad
broad
52,242 corpus weight
What this shows « bourdons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourdons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourdons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bourdons (IPA \buʁ.dɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,755 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bourdon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bourdons, with forms such as "bbourdons", "borudons", and "boudrons". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "boutons", "bourgeons", "bourbon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bourdons, spelled B-O-U-R-D-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bourdon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourdons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce carillon est le plus parfait qui existe ; aussi tous les carillons de Flandre ont-ils, depuis long-tems, reconnu sa suprématie ; mais comme il est situé dans le centre des cafés et des estaminets, et qu’il ne décesse de faire entendre sa vigoureuse harmonie, les étrangers, qui ne peuvent le souffrir, jurent d’une façon bien diabolique contre tous les b…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbourdons
- borudons
- boudrons
- bourddons
- bourdnos
- bourdonns
- bourdonss
- bourdosn
- bourodns
- bourrdons
- buordons
- oburdons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bourdons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).