bourrage
\bu.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“bourrage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,775. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,775
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de bourrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourrage · bourrage · French
bourrage · rank #42,775 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,775
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulard
Nearest frequency peer: boulard (-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 « bourrage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bona
Bona
57,229 corpus weight
- boulard
boulard
57,227 corpus weight
- bourrage
bourrage
57,226 corpus weight
- branchement
branchement
57,225 corpus weight
- Brignoles
Brignoles
57,224 corpus weight
- brouillage
brouillage
57,223 corpus weight
What this shows « bourrage » 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 | bourrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourrage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bourrage (IPA \bu.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,775 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bourrage, with forms such as "bbourrage", "borurage", and "bourage". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bourre", "bourrée", "barrage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bourrage, spelled B-O-U-R-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de bourrer.
- 2Bourrage papier.
- 3Action qui consiste, pour un commissaire-priseur, à faire croire à un acheteur qu'il y a dans la salle une enchère supérieure à la sienne. On dit aussi bourrer dans le vide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bourrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bourrage de sa bouche avec de la sciure de bois a fait craquer la peau et l’a même fait éclater sur le côté gauche.
Il y a généralement un boutefeu par poste ayant à sa charge le minage, la surveillance de l'aérage et la tenue d'un rapport donnant à la maîtrise du quartier les renseignements relatifs à la durée de la foration, du bourrage, du scrapage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbourrage
- borurage
- bourage
- bourarge
- bourraeg
- bourragge
- bourrgae
- buorrage
- oburrage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bourrage - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).