burat
\by.ʁa\
The verdict
“burat” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bure, étoffe commune et grossière, légèrement plus épaisse que l'étamine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burat · burat · French
burat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « burat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
burat is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
burat has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 burat, spelled B-U-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Bure, étoffe commune et grossière, légèrement plus épaisse que l'étamine.
- 2Étoffe de laine fine, légèrement plus épaisse que l'étamine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how burat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était merveille de la voir se trémousser avec son madras sur la tête, sa grosse robe de burat gris, ses manchettes de couleur et ses sabots bourrés de paille.
Assez proche de l’étamine est le burat doux, plus brillanté, plus sec et plus ras, ainsi que le burat ras, en laine fine filée à la main, très utilisé par les religieuses françaises et espagnoles.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.