bourrer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,914
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bourrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Garnir de bourre. Pronounced \bu.ʁe\. Often confused with bourse and burger.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bourrer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,914 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bourrer, with forms such as "bbourrer", "borurer", and "bourerr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bourse", "burger", "bourses", 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 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 bourrer, spelled B-O-U-R-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Garnir de bourre.
- 2Par le canon, charger la bourre d’une arme à feu ^([2]).
- 3Remplir une chose d’une matière quelconque.
- 4Remplir l’estomac au delà de ce qu’il peut contenir.
- 5En parlant du chien, arracher du poil au gibier, d’un coup de dent, en le poursuivant ^([1&2]).
- 6Donner des coups de fleuret, de bout de fusil ^([2]).
- 7Porter des coups ; frapper ; maltraiter ^([2]).
- 8Quereller, réprimander d’une manière brusque, pousser vivement, maltraiter de paroles ^([2]).
- 9Mettre des inutilités dans un écrit ^([2]).
- 10Se boursoufler ^([2]).
- 11Aller vite, foncer.
- 12Se dit en parlant d’un cheval qui, sans que le cavalier puisse l’en empêcher, s’élance vivement vers l’avant.
- 13Se dit du plomb en fusion qui termine sa coulée sur le sable sans aller plus loin.
- 14Se dit d’un outil, d’un appareil, qui s’engorge avec un matériau quelconque.
- 15Manger, boire avec excès.
- 16Action de faire monter des enchères publiques pour gêner un concurrent, un autre acheteur.
- 17Faire l'amour.
- 18Faire l'amour.
- 19Se faire foutre, exprime un vif rejet.
- 20Exprime notamment une connivence entre le locuteur, l’allocutaire et quelqu’un dont l’allocutaire vient de parler, ou une intention taquine ou moqueuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbourrer,borurer,bourerr,bourrerr,bourrre,buorrer,oburrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bourrer
Misspelling Variants of "bourrer"
Frequency rank: #25,914 in French
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Nearby French words
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