burkinabés
\byʁ.ki.na.be\
The verdict
“burkinabés” is uncommon French (frequency #90,498 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,498
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de burkinabé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burkinabes · burkinabés · French
burkinabés · rank #90,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,498
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buenas
Nearest frequency peer: buenas (-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 « burkinabés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brûlèrent
brûlèrent
9,505 corpus weight
- buenas
buenas
9,504 corpus weight
- burkinabés
burkinabés
9,503 corpus weight
- bâiller
bâiller
9,502 corpus weight
- cabanons
cabanons
9,501 corpus weight
- cabasse
cabasse
9,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « burkinabés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burkinabés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \byʁ.ki.na.be\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « burkinabés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
burkinabés is uncommon French at frequency #90,498 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \byʁ.ki.na.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de burkinabé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for burkinabés in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 burkinabés, spelled B-U-R-K-I-N-A-B-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de burkinabé.
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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