bourgeois-bohème
\buʁ.ʒwa.bɔ.ɛm\
The verdict
“bourgeois-bohème” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne faisant le choix de lieu de vie en alignement avec des valeurs culturelles, éthiques, intellectuelles plutôt qu’en fonction de l’accumulation de richesse ou du confort matériel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourgeois-bohème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.ʒwa.bɔ.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bourgeois-bohème” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bourgeois-bohème is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \buʁ.ʒwa.bɔ.ɛm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personne faisant le choix de lieu de vie en alignement avec des valeurs culturelles, éthiques, intellectuelles plutôt qu’en fonction de l’accumulation de richesse ou du confort matériel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bourgeois-bohème, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bourgeois-bohème, spelled B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S---B-O-H-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Personne faisant le choix de lieu de vie en alignement avec des valeurs culturelles, éthiques, intellectuelles plutôt qu’en fonction de l’accumulation de richesse ou du confort matériel.
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Using “bourgeois-bohème”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S---B-O-H-È-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.