Bourvil
\buʁ.vil\
The verdict
“Bourvil” is uncommon French (frequency #62,105 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,105
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pseudonyme d’André Raimbourg, acteur, chanteur et humoriste français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourvil · Bourvil · French
Bourvil · rank #62,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,105
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boudeuse
Nearest frequency peer: boudeuse (-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 « Bourvil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bost
Bost
37,899 corpus weight
- bottle
bottle
37,898 corpus weight
- boudeuse
boudeuse
37,897 corpus weight
- Bourvil
Bourvil
37,896 corpus weight
- boycottent
boycottent
37,895 corpus weight
- BPC
BPC
37,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bourvil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bourvil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.vil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bourvil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bourvil is uncommon French at frequency #62,105 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \buʁ.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pseudonyme d’André Raimbourg, acteur, chanteur et humoriste français.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bourvil, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Bourvil, spelled B-O-U-R-V-I-L.
Definition
- 1Pseudonyme d’André Raimbourg, acteur, chanteur et humoriste français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bourvil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bourvil, Nougaro, Bashung… tous se font réinterpréter par l’Ensemble et chanter par la voix douce de de la Simone, pour un résultat prenant.
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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