bourrent
\buʁ\
The verdict
“bourrent” is uncommon French (frequency #97,727 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,727
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe bourrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourrent · bourrent · French
bourrent · rank #97,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,727
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourdillon
Nearest frequency peer: bourdillon (-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 « bourrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bouguereau
Bouguereau
2,279 corpus weight
- bouli
bouli
2,276 corpus weight
- bourdillon
bourdillon
2,275 corpus weight
- bourrent
bourrent
2,274 corpus weight
- brabançons
brabançons
2,271 corpus weight
- bressan
bressan
2,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \buʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourrent is uncommon French at frequency #97,727 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bourrent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bourrent, spelled B-O-U-R-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe bourrer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe bourrer.
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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