Burgundy
The verdict
“Burgundy” is uncommon French (frequency #65,759 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,759
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourgogne, région française.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burgundy · Burgundy · French
Burgundy · rank #65,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,759
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buen
Nearest frequency peer: buen (-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 « Burgundy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Buc
Buc
34,245 corpus weight
- buccales
buccales
34,244 corpus weight
- buen
buen
34,243 corpus weight
- Burgundy
Burgundy
34,242 corpus weight
- Burnley
Burnley
34,241 corpus weight
- bêtisier
bêtisier
34,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Burgundy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Burgundy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Burgundy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Burgundy is uncommon French at frequency #65,759 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Burgundy in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Burgundy, spelled B-U-R-G-U-N-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Bourgogne, région française.
- 2Bourgogne, le vin de cette région.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Burgundy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He chose a group of three brothers to illuminate it, Paul, Herman and Jean de Limbourg. Their uncle was the painter Jean Malouel, who worked for the Duke of Burgundy.
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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