bourses
\buʁs\
The verdict
“bourses” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,936
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bourse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourses · bourses · French
bourses · rank #7,936 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,936
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boue
Nearest frequency peer: boue (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- auberge
auberge
92,068 corpus weight
- Australien
Australien
92,067 corpus weight
- boue
boue
92,066 corpus weight
- bourses
bourses
92,065 corpus weight
- brute
brute
92,064 corpus weight
- caire
caire
92,063 corpus weight
What this shows « bourses » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bourses (IPA \buʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,936 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bourses, with forms such as "bbourses", "boruses", and "bouress". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bouse", "buses", "burnes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bourses, spelled B-O-U-R-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bourse.
- 2Scrotum. → voir bourse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est que la base est un espace de loisirs à la portée de toutes les bourses, surtout des plus modestes qui n’ont pas les moyens de partir en vacances, d’aller à la plage ou même de faire un plouf au X’Eau de Châteaubernard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbourses
- boruses
- bouress
- bourrses
- boursess
- boursses
- bousres
- buorses
- oburses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bourses - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bourses", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).