bourreaux
\bu.ʁo\
The verdict
“bourreaux” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,939. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,939
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bourreau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourreaux · bourreaux · French
bourreaux · rank #20,939 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,939
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boursiers
Nearest frequency peer: boursiers (+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 « bourreaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bibliques
bibliques
79,065 corpus weight
- blade
blade
79,064 corpus weight
- bourreaux
bourreaux
79,062 corpus weight
- boursiers
boursiers
79,061 corpus weight
- branlette
branlette
79,060 corpus weight
- brûlées
brûlées
79,059 corpus weight
What this shows « bourreaux » 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 | bourreaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourreaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bourreaux (IPA \bu.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,939 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bourreau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bourreaux, with forms such as "bbourreaux", "borureaux", and "boureaux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "bureaux", "bordeaux", "barreaux", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bourreaux, spelled B-O-U-R-R-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bourreau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourreaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le grenier, on trouve que la punition est suffisante et les bourreaux descendent la victime, qui n’a rien de plus pressé que de se défaire de la corde malencontreuse et de courir en son logis pour se désenfieller.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbourreaux
- borureaux
- boureaux
- boureraux
- bourraeux
- bourreauxx
- bourreaxu
- bourreuax
- buorreaux
- oburreaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bourreaux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).