bourrasque

\bu.ʁask\

/\bu.ʁask\/ noun

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The verdict

“bourrasque” is uncommon French (frequency #58,461 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,461
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coup de vent impétueux et de peu de durée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bourrasque · bourrasque · French

bourrasque · rank #58,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,461
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bonde

Nearest frequency peer: bonde (-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 « bourrasque »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourrasque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bourrasque
PropertyValue
Headwordbourrasque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bu.ʁask\
Letters10
Frequency rank#58,461
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bourrasque » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).bourrasquetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « bonde » (#58,460), « bous » (#58,462), « boer » (#58,459). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bourrasque » est au #58,461. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bourrasque is uncommon French at frequency #58,461 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁask\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

bourrasque doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bourrasque, spelled B-O-U-R-R-A-S-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Coup de vent impétueux et de peu de durée.
  2. 2
    Mouvements de colère brusques et passagers d’une personne.
  3. 3
    Accident, mal imprévu et passager. ^([2])
  4. 4
    Émeute populaire passagère. ^([2])

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bourrasque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quelques bourrasques de neige passaient au milieu des rafales de pluie et du vent. La mauvaise saison était évidemment prochaine.
  2. Sans la bourrasque de la nuit qui avait séché et déplacé toute la couche superficielle du sable, un vent aussi faible n’eût pu provoquer aucun mouvement à la surface du sol.

This word in other languages

squall(English)borrasca(Español)Windstoß(Deutsch)borrasca(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bourrasque"?
"bourrasque" is spelled B-O-U-R-R-A-S-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bu.ʁask\.
What does "bourrasque" mean?
As a noun, "bourrasque" means: Coup de vent impétueux et de peu de durée.
How do you pronounce "bourrasque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bourrasque" is \bu.ʁask\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bourrasque" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bourrasque", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list