bourrasse
\bu.ʁas\
The verdict
“bourrasse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sac de jute, utilisé notamment dans la Dröme, pour entreposer et transporter les fleurs de tilleul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourrasse · bourrasse · French
bourrasse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | bourrasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourrasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourrasse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sac de jute, utilisé notamment dans la Dröme, pour entreposer et transporter les fleurs de tilleul.".
bourrasse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bourrasse, spelled B-O-U-R-R-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Sac de jute, utilisé notamment dans la Dröme, pour entreposer et transporter les fleurs de tilleul.
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.