bourgeois
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,011
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
bourgeois is aFrenchnoun. It means: Citoyen d’une ville. Pronounced \buʁ.ʒwa\. It ranks #5,011 in French word frequency. Often confused with Bourges and Bourgoin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourgeois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.ʒwa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bourgeois is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \buʁ.ʒwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,011 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for bourgeois, with forms such as "bbourgeois", "borugeois", and "bougreois". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Bourges", "Bourgoin", "bourgeon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bourgeois, spelled B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Citoyen d’une ville.
- 2Celui qui n’est ni noble, ni ecclésiastique, ni militaire.
- 3Personne de condition aisée et ayant une mentalité conformiste qui abhorre le désordre.
- 4Membre de la classe sociale qui détient les moyens de production.
- 5Homme qui ne travaille pas de ses mains, par opposition à ouvrier ; rentier.
- 6Armateur d’un navire corsaire.
- 7Policier en civil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbourgeois,borugeois,bougreois,bouregois,bourgeios,bourgeoiss,bourgeosi,bourggeois,bourgoeis,bourrgeois,buorgeois,oburgeois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bourgeois
Misspelling Variants of "bourgeois"
Frequency rank: #5,011 in French
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