bourge
\buʁʒ\
The verdict
“bourge” is uncommon French (frequency #53,169 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,169
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourgeois, au sens moderne du terme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourge · bourge · French
bourge · rank #53,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,169
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulimique
Nearest frequency peer: boulimique (-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 « bourge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouillonnem…
bouillonnement
46,835 corpus weight
- bouledogue
bouledogue
46,834 corpus weight
- boulimique
boulimique
46,833 corpus weight
- bourge
bourge
46,832 corpus weight
- Bourque
Bourque
46,831 corpus weight
- boutures
boutures
46,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourge is uncommon French at frequency #53,169 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bourge has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bourge, spelled B-O-U-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Bourgeois, au sens moderne du terme.
- 2Personne qui expose son aisance matérielle et financière au travers de signes extérieurs de richesse tels que les voitures, les bijoux, ou encore démontre un goût prononcé pour le luxe et le snobisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bourge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un grand de terminale l’avait traitée de « prol », elle lui avait répondu qu’il était un « bourge ». Le pauvre petit était allé pleurer chez ses parents qui avaient exigé que la subalterne présente des excuses au cher ange. Pétronille avait dit que « bourge » n’était pas plus une insulte que « prol », c’était un état de fait, il n’y avait donc pas lieu d’…
Avec mon mari, autrefois, je me sentais une fille du peuple, avec lui j’étais une bourge.
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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