bourrache officinale
\bu.ʁa.ʃ‿ɔ.fi.si.nal\
The verdict
“bourrache officinale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante herbacée annuelle à fleurs bleues, de la famille des Boraginacées, mellifère, commune en Europe, souvent cultivée dans les jardins, elle est originaire de la partie ouest du basin méditerran...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourrache officinale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁa.ʃ‿ɔ.fi.si.nal\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bourrache officinale” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bourrache officinale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁa.ʃ‿ɔ.fi.si.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante herbacée annuelle à fleurs bleues, de la famille des Boraginacées, mellifère, commune en Europe, souvent cultivée dans les jardins, elle est originaire de la partie ouest du basin méditerran...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bourrache officinale, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 bourrache officinale, spelled B-O-U-R-R-A-C-H-E- -O-F-F-I-C-I-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée annuelle à fleurs bleues, de la famille des Boraginacées, mellifère, commune en Europe, souvent cultivée dans les jardins, elle est originaire de la partie ouest du basin méditerranéen. La plante contient quelques alcaloïdes pyrrolizidiniques potentiellement toxiques à forte dose.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-R-R-A-C-H-E- -O-F-F-I-C-I-N-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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