bourru
\bu.ʁy\
The verdict
“bourru” is uncommon French (frequency #50,687 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,687
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’une humeur brusque, fâchée et chagrine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourru · bourru · French
bourru · rank #50,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,687
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bousille
Nearest frequency peer: bousille (+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 « bourru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bossant
bossant
49,318 corpus weight
- bougeant
bougeant
49,317 corpus weight
- bourru
bourru
49,314 corpus weight
- bousille
bousille
49,313 corpus weight
- brewer
brewer
49,312 corpus weight
- Brodie
Brodie
49,310 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bourru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourru is uncommon French at frequency #50,687 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bu.ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bourru in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bourru, spelled B-O-U-R-R-U.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une humeur brusque, fâchée et chagrine.
- 2Qui est rempli de bourre, qui n’est pas lisse.
- 3Poilu.
- 4Mal dégrossie, en parlant d’une pierre de construction.
- 5Qui n’a pas totalement fermenté et qui se conserve doux dans le tonneau durant une semaine, en parlant d’une sorte de vin blanc nouveau.
- 6Qui vient d’être trait, en parlant du lait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bourru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un esprit bourru. — Avoir l’humeur bourrue, etc.
Messire Robert d’Estouteville s’était éveillé le matin du 7 janvier 1482 fort bourru et de massacrante humeur.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).