bourgmestresse
\buʁ.mɛs.tʁɛs\
The verdict
“bourgmestresse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épouse d’un bourgmestre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourgmestresse · bourgmestresse · French
bourgmestresse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourgmestresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.mɛs.tʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourgmestresse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourgmestresse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \buʁ.mɛs.tʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Épouse d’un bourgmestre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bourgmestresse, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bourgmestresse, spelled B-O-U-R-G-M-E-S-T-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Épouse d’un bourgmestre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourgmestresse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il en était, je crois bien ; demandez plutôt à madame la bourgmestresse. (La bourgmestresse se signe.)
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.