bourse
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,910
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bourse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit sac de cuir, d’étoffe, ou d’un tissu quelconque, dans lequel on met l’argent qu’on veut porter sur soi. Pronounced \buʁs\. It ranks #2,910 in French word frequency. Often confused with bure and buse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bourse is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \buʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,910 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bourse, with forms such as "bbourse", "boruse", and "boures". 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, "bure", "buse", "bouts", 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 bourse, spelled B-O-U-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit sac de cuir, d’étoffe, ou d’un tissu quelconque, dans lequel on met l’argent qu’on veut porter sur soi.
- 2Réserve ou disponibilités en argent d’une personne, argent dont on dispose actuellement ou habituellement.
- 3Allocation financière dans un but d’étude, de projets ; pension accordée à un élève ou à un étudiant pour lui permettre de suivre les cours d’une école ou d’une université.
- 4Longue poche faite de réseau qu’on met à l’entrée d’un terrier pour prendre les lapins qu’on chasse au furet.
- 5Double carton, couvert d’étoffe, dans lequel on met le corporal qui sert à la messe.
- 6Ce qui a la forme d’un petit sac : les membranes qui enveloppent les champignons quand ils sont encore jeunes (→ voir volva) ; les bourgeons de certains arbres à fruits ; les capsules des anthères.
- 7Scrotum, testicule.
- 8Petit sac ou poche membraneuse de l’organisme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbourse,boruse,boures,bourrse,boursse,bousre,buorse,oburse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bourse
Misspelling Variants of "bourse"
Frequency rank: #2,910 in French
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