Bourges
\buʁʒ\
The verdict
“Bourges” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,647. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,647
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département du Cher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourges · Bourges · French
Bourges · rank #10,647 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,647
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulanger
Nearest frequency peer: boulanger (-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 « Bourges »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bilingue
bilingue
89,357 corpus weight
- bouchons
bouchons
89,356 corpus weight
- boulanger
boulanger
89,355 corpus weight
- Bourges
Bourges
89,354 corpus weight
- briller
briller
89,353 corpus weight
- Bulgarie
Bulgarie
89,352 corpus weight
What this shows « Bourges » 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 | Bourges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \buʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bourges »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bourges (IPA \buʁʒ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,647 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département du Cher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bourges, with forms such as "bbourges", "boruges", and "bougres". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bourse", "burger", "Bruges", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Bourges, spelled B-O-U-R-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département du Cher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bourges appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bourges […] a ses magnifiques monuments, son austère physionomie historique, ses jardins déserts, ses beaux clairs de lune sur les pignons aigus de ses maisons du moyen âge, ses grandes rues où l’herbe ronge le pavé, et ses longues nuits silencieuses qui commencent presque au coucher du soleil. C’est bien l’antique métropole des Aquitaines, une ville de c…
2 août 42 – Nous sommes installés au cœur de la France. C’est une impression artificielle sans doute, mais l’idée que Bourges est le centre géométrique de la France et que le Berry est également loin de tout mer, me fait trouver sa campagne plus campagne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbourges
- boruges
- bougres
- bouregs
- bourgess
- bourgges
- bourgse
- bourrges
- buorges
- oburges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bourges - 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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