bures
\byʁ\
The verdict
“bures” is uncommon French (frequency #75,467 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,467
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bures · bures · French
bures · rank #75,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,467
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH cabris
Nearest frequency peer: cabris (+2 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 « bures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- britanno
britanno
24,538 corpus weight
- bronco
bronco
24,537 corpus weight
- bures
bures
24,534 corpus weight
- cabris
cabris
24,532 corpus weight
- cacas
cacas
24,531 corpus weight
- cadreur
cadreur
24,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bures is uncommon French at frequency #75,467 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \byʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bures, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bures, spelled B-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bure.
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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