bourgades
\buʁ.ɡad\
The verdict
“bourgades” is uncommon French (frequency #72,975 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,975
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bourgade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourgades · bourgades · French
bourgades · rank #72,975 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,975
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouillis
Nearest frequency peer: bouillis (-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 « bourgades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouffait
bouffait
27,030 corpus weight
- bougeront
bougeront
27,028 corpus weight
- bouillis
bouillis
27,027 corpus weight
- bourgades
bourgades
27,026 corpus weight
- Bowden
Bowden
27,025 corpus weight
- brb
brb
27,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourgades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourgades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.ɡad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourgades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourgades is uncommon French at frequency #72,975 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buʁ.ɡad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bourgade.".
bourgades doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bourgades, spelled B-O-U-R-G-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bourgade.
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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