burins
\by.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“burins” is uncommon French (frequency #84,593 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,593
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de burin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burins · burins · French
burins · rank #84,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,593
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burel
Nearest frequency peer: burel (-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 « burins »
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 « burins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « burins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
burins is uncommon French at frequency #84,593 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de burin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for burins, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is burins, spelled B-U-R-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de burin.
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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