Bourgueil
\buʁ.ɡœj\
The verdict
“Bourgueil” is uncommon French (frequency #71,305 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,305
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourgueil · Bourgueil · French
Bourgueil · rank #71,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,305
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boutonne
Nearest frequency peer: boutonne (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Bourgueil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- borrel
borrel
28,700 corpus weight
- Bourcier
Bourcier
28,698 corpus weight
- Bourgueil
Bourgueil
28,696 corpus weight
- boutonne
boutonne
28,695 corpus weight
- brahmanes
brahmanes
28,694 corpus weight
- breakdance
breakdance
28,693 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bourgueil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bourgueil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.ɡœj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bourgueil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bourgueil is uncommon French at frequency #71,305 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \buʁ.ɡœj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Bourgueil in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Bourgueil, spelled B-O-U-R-G-U-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.
- 2Vin rouge ou rosé produit à Bourgueil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bourgueil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette pensée lui venait tout droit du vin de Bourgueil qu’il avait bu et qui est une très enchanteresse liqueur. Le bonheur que ce vin contient et communique ne dure qu’un moment, ce qui est déjà très bon.
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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