bourre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,887
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bourre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Amas de poils détachés de la peau de certains animaux à poil ras, tels que les bovins, les chevaux, etc. Pronounced \buʁ\. Often confused with bure and burke.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bourre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \buʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,887 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for bourre, with forms such as "bbourre", "borure", and "boure". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bure", "burke", "bouse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bourre, spelled B-O-U-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Amas de poils détachés de la peau de certains animaux à poil ras, tels que les bovins, les chevaux, etc.
- 2Partie la plus grossière du cocon, celle qui ne se dévide pas.
- 3Remplissage superflu, bourrage.
- 4Ce qu’on met par-dessus la charge d’une cartouche de fusil.
- 5Duvet qui couvre les bourgeons de quelques arbres et arbrisseaux, lorsqu’ils commencent à pousser. → voir débourrer
- 6Jeune âge, par analogie avec celui qui précède le débourrage chez les chevaux.
- 7Couverture végétale de la toiture de certaines maisons → voir bourrine
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbourre,borure,boure,bourer,buorre,oburre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bourre
Misspelling Variants of "bourre"
Frequency rank: #17,887 in French
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