boursouflé
\buʁ.su.fle\
The verdict
“boursouflé” is uncommon French (frequency #95,619 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,619
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enflé, gonflé à l'extrême.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boursoufle · boursouflé · French
boursouflé · rank #95,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,619
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boullier
Nearest frequency peer: Boullier (-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 « boursouflé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Borodine
Borodine
4,385 corpus weight
- Boullier
Boullier
4,383 corpus weight
- boursouflé
boursouflé
4,382 corpus weight
- bousculait
bousculait
4,381 corpus weight
- bove
bove
4,380 corpus weight
- brevetabili…
brevetabilité
4,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boursouflé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boursouflé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \buʁ.su.fle\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boursouflé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boursouflé is uncommon French at frequency #95,619 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \buʁ.su.fle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for boursouflé, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 boursouflé, spelled B-O-U-R-S-O-U-F-L-É.
Definition
- 1Enflé, gonflé à l'extrême.
- 2Se dit figurément d’une manière pompeuse et vide d’écrire, de parler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boursouflé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cri auquel il était sourd le suivit jusqu’à l’instant où, sur sa jambe pourrie, la peau boursouflée céda, éclata, laissa le pus jaillir et ruisseler.
Un style boursouflé.
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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