bourreau des cœurs

/\bu.ʁo de kœʁ\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

bourreau des cœurs is aFrenchnoun. It means: Homme qui multiplie les conquêtes féminines ; séducteur impénitent ; don Juan. Pronounced \bu.ʁo de kœʁ\.

Key facts for bourreau des cœurs
PropertyValue
Headwordbourreau des cœurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bu.ʁo de kœʁ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bourreau des cœurs is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bourreau des cœurs is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.ʁo de kœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Homme qui multiplie les conquêtes féminines ; séducteur impénitent ; don Juan.".

No misspelling variants are generated for bourreau des cœurs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 bourreau des cœurs, spelled B-O-U-R-R-E-A-U- -D-E-S- -C-Œ-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Homme qui multiplie les conquêtes féminines ; séducteur impénitent ; don Juan.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bourreau des cœurs"?
"bourreau des cœurs" is spelled B-O-U-R-R-E-A-U- -D-E-S- -C-Œ-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bu.ʁo de kœʁ\.
What does "bourreau des cœurs" mean?
As a noun, "bourreau des cœurs" means: Homme qui multiplie les conquêtes féminines ; séducteur impénitent ; don Juan.
How do you pronounce "bourreau des cœurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bourreau des cœurs" is \bu.ʁo de kœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bourreau des cœurs" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.