bure
\byʁ\
The verdict
“bure” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,261
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe grossière faite de laine rousse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bure · bure · French
bure · rank #29,261 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,261
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH cabernet
Nearest frequency peer: cabernet (+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 « bure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- branleur
branleur
70,743 corpus weight
- brisant
brisant
70,742 corpus weight
- bure
bure
70,740 corpus weight
- cabernet
cabernet
70,739 corpus weight
- caddie
caddie
70,738 corpus weight
- cadrage
cadrage
70,737 corpus weight
What this shows « bure » 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 | bure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around bure (IPA \byʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,261 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for bure, with forms such as "bbure", "brue", and "buer". 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, "but", "bus", "bye", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bure, spelled B-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Étoffe grossière faite de laine rousse.
- 2Vêtement fait de cette étoffe, notamment la robe de bure des moines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son manteau blanc était d’un modèle régulier et sévère, […]. Il était fait de ce qu’on appelait alors drap de bure, et collait exactement sur sa taille.
Un rayon de soleil vif et joyeux … venait tomber sur la jeune fille parée, vermeille et mignonne, si différente de sa mère, replète, hâlée, vêtue de bure.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbure
- brue
- buer
- burre
- ubre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).