bourrelier
\bu.ʁə.lje\
The verdict
“bourrelier” is uncommon French (frequency #85,528 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,528
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artisan qui fait les bâts et les harnais des chevaux et des bêtes de somme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourrelier · bourrelier · French
bourrelier · rank #85,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,528
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boukhara
Nearest frequency peer: Boukhara (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bourrelier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blottit
blottit
14,478 corpus weight
- botnet
botnet
14,476 corpus weight
- Boukhara
Boukhara
14,474 corpus weight
- bourrelier
bourrelier
14,473 corpus weight
- boye
boye
14,472 corpus weight
- brasiers
brasiers
14,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourrelier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourrelier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁə.lje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourrelier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourrelier is uncommon French at frequency #85,528 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁə.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bourrelier, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bourrelier, spelled B-O-U-R-R-E-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Artisan qui fait les bâts et les harnais des chevaux et des bêtes de somme.
- 2Celui qui tient un magasin ou un atelier de bourrellerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bourrelier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or. comme le père Rouault allait être forcé de vendre vingt-deux acres de son bien, qu’il devait beaucoup au maçon, beaucoup au bourrelier, que l’arbre du pressoir était à remettre .
De cette cour, je vois la rue en biais, et je puis dévorer des yeux la devanture du bourrelier, où il y a des tas de houppes et de grelots, des pompons bleus, de grands fouets couleur de cigare et des harnais qui brillent comme de l’or.
Synonyms
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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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