bourrées

Name: bourrées, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\bu.ʁe\

/\bu.ʁe\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“bourrées” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,336
frequency rank, French: 4,251
“B” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de bourré.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bourrees · bourrées · French

bourrées · rank #44,336 · 10 variants · 12 confusables

FREQ-MID #44,336
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 4,251
PHOTO-FINISH bolcheviks

Nearest frequency peer: bolcheviks (-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.

bizarreries

55,668
blondie

55,667
bolcheviks

55,666
bourrées

55,665
breaks

55,663
bredouille

55,662

What this shows « bourrées » 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).

bourrées vs bourses

75% similar

bourrées vs bourrer

75% similar

bourrées vs bourrelets

70% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bourrées
Property	Value
Headword	bourrées
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\bu.ʁe\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#44,336
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	12
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourrées »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.bourréesse place ici:

#44,336

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bolcheviks » (#44,335), « blondie » (#44,334), « breaks » (#44,338). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bourrées » est au #44,336. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around bourrées (IPA \bu.ʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,336 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de bourré.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bourrées, with forms such as "bbourrées", "borurées", and "bourrees". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "bourses", "bourrer", "bourrelets", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bourrées, spelled B-O-U-R-R-É-E-S.

Definition

1
Féminin pluriel de bourré.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

Des pare-battages, sortes de bouées bourrées de liège servant à amortir les chocs et à protéger la coque, pendaient aux deux côtés du glisseur.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

bbourrées
borurées
bourrees
bourreés
bourréess
bourrése
bourées
bouréres
buorrées
oburrées

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bourrées - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "bourrées"

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 "bourrées"?

"bourrées" is spelled B-O-U-R-R-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bu.ʁe\.

What does "bourrées" mean?

As an adjective, "bourrées" means: Féminin pluriel de bourré.

What words are commonly confused with "bourrées"?

"bourrées" is commonly confused with "bourses", "bourrer", "bourrelets". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "bourrées"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bourrées" is \bu.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "bourrées" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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