bourgeon
\buʁ.ʒɔ̃\
The verdict
“bourgeon” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,697. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,697
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Œil des arbres et des arbrisseaux, qui va se développant et d’où doivent sortir des branches, des feuilles ou des fleurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourgeon · bourgeon · French
bourgeon · rank #37,697 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,697
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bornée
Nearest frequency peer: bornée (-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 « bourgeon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boomers
boomers
62,307 corpus weight
- bornée
bornée
62,305 corpus weight
- bourgeon
bourgeon
62,304 corpus weight
- Bovary
Bovary
62,303 corpus weight
- Brecht
Brecht
62,302 corpus weight
- BRIC
BRIC
62,301 corpus weight
What this shows « bourgeon » 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 | bourgeon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourgeon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bourgeon (IPA \buʁ.ʒɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,697 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bourgeon, with forms such as "bbourgeon", "borugeon", and "bougreon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Bourges", "Bourgoin", "bourgeons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bourgeon, spelled B-O-U-R-G-E-O-N.
Definition
- 1Œil des arbres et des arbrisseaux, qui va se développant et d’où doivent sortir des branches, des feuilles ou des fleurs.
- 2Nouveau jet de la vigne, lorsqu’il est déjà en scion.
- 3Boutons qui viennent au visage, acné.
- 4Laine très fine en brins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bourgeon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Philippe.– Oui, ils le savent, les infâmes ! ils savent bien où ils frappent ! Le vieux tronc d’arbre est d’un bois trop solide ; ils ne viendraient pas l’entamer. Mais ils connaissent la fibre délicate qui tressaille dans ses entrailles lorsqu’on attaque son plus faible bourgeon.
L’herbe à coton, l’élégante linaigrette, semait ses houppes soyeuses, les bourgeons précoces de l’airelle bleue des marais pointaient ça et là. Les prêles dressaient leurs épis bruns au cœur même du tapis de sphaignes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbourgeon
- borugeon
- bougreon
- bouregon
- bourgeno
- bourgeonn
- bourggeon
- bourgoen
- bourrgeon
- buorgeon
- oburgeon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bourgeon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).