bourgeoises
\buʁ.ʒwaz\
The verdict
“bourgeoises” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,077
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de bourgeois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourgeoises · bourgeoises · French
bourgeoises · rank #28,077 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,077
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouchers
Nearest frequency peer: bouchers (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourgeoises »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bisounours
Bisounours
71,927 corpus weight
- bone
bone
71,926 corpus weight
- bouchers
bouchers
71,925 corpus weight
- bourgeoises
bourgeoises
71,924 corpus weight
- bourgs
bourgs
71,923 corpus weight
- brasseur
brasseur
71,922 corpus weight
What this shows « bourgeoises » 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 | bourgeoises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \buʁ.ʒwaz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourgeoises »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around bourgeoises (IPA \buʁ.ʒwaz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,077 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de bourgeois.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bourgeoises, with forms such as "bbourgeoises", "borugeoises", and "bougreoises". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bourgeoisie", "bourgeois", "bourgeoise", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bourgeoises, spelled B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de bourgeois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourgeoises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le père mort depuis longtemps avait été, paraît-il, un disciple des théories Saint-Simoniennes. Il n’y apparaissait guère dans la famille. Le seul caractère avancé était l’absence de religion ; à part cela la mère et les filles étaient absolument bourgeoises et conservatrices, tout à fait détachées du sort du peuple qui, pour elles, ne comptait pas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbourgeoises
- borugeoises
- bougreoises
- bouregoises
- bourgeioses
- bourgeoiess
- bourgeoisess
- bourgeoisses
- bourgeosies
- bourggeoises
- bourgoeises
- bourrgeoises
- buorgeoises
- oburgeoises
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bourgeoises - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).