bourriquet
\bu.ʁi.kɛ\
The verdict
“bourriquet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit ânon ou âne d’une petite race.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourriquet · bourriquet · French
bourriquet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourriquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁi.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bourriquet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁi.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bourriquet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bourriquet, spelled B-O-U-R-R-I-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit ânon ou âne d’une petite race.
- 2Tourniquet de mineur.
- 3Civière de carrier, de maçon.
- 4Chevalet de couvreur pour poser l’ardoise.
- 5Outil de brodeur.
- 6Banc portant des tenailles.
- 7Espèce de civière ou caisse carrée à jour, dans laquelle on montait le moellon, et même le mortier, au haut du bâtiment par le moyen de la grue, de l'engin ou de la chèvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bourriquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois, je m’en allais sur mon bourriquet, comme disait le garde champêtre ; … .
— Cz ! Cz ! vas-y, monsieur Grasset ! Mords-lui la crête, mons Pétaud ! Çà, çà, rabats-lui le caquet ! Aïe donc ! hardi, bourriquet !…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.