burel
The verdict
“burel” is uncommon French (frequency #84,592 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,592
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burel · burel · French
burel · rank #84,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,592
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burins
Nearest frequency peer: burins (+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 « burel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brouage
Brouage
15,413 corpus weight
- buller
buller
15,412 corpus weight
- Bundeswehr
Bundeswehr
15,411 corpus weight
- burel
burel
15,409 corpus weight
- burins
burins
15,408 corpus weight
- bâtissant
bâtissant
15,406 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « burel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « burel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
burel is uncommon French at frequency #84,592 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for burel in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is burel, spelled B-U-R-E-L.
Definition
- 1Bure.
- 2Gros manteau de bure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how burel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[L'amour] C'est taigne qui riens ne refuse, Les porpres [pourpres] et les buriaus use.
Riches draps, gros bureaux et le linge esmeré.
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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