bourrique
\bu.ʁik\
The verdict
“bourrique” is uncommon French (frequency #61,356 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,356
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ânesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourrique · bourrique · French
bourrique · rank #61,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,356
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bouira
Nearest frequency peer: Bouira (-2 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 « bourrique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bougnoule
bougnoule
38,648 corpus weight
- Bouira
Bouira
38,647 corpus weight
- bourrique
bourrique
38,645 corpus weight
- boxon
boxon
38,643 corpus weight
- Braithwaite
Braithwaite
38,642 corpus weight
- Brantôme
Brantôme
38,641 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourrique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourrique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourrique is uncommon French at frequency #61,356 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bourrique, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bourrique, spelled B-O-U-R-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Ânesse.
- 2Âne ou ânesse.
- 3ou Mauvais petit cheval.
- 4Personne sotte et entêtée.
- 5Adressé par antiphrase à une relation amicale.
- 6Civière, tourniquet dont se servent les couvreurs, les maçons, etc.
- 7Indicateur de police ; mouchard.
- 8Agent de la Sûreté — (Jean Lacassagne et Pierre Devaux, L’Argot du milieu, page 27)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bourrique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un paysan monté sur une bourrique.
Une bourrique chargée.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).