burqa
\byʁ.ka\
The verdict
“burqa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,236
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vêtement souvent bleu qui couvre entièrement la tête et le corps, une grille au niveau des yeux permettant de voir sans être vu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burqa · burqa · French
burqa · rank #25,236 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,236
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bud
Nearest frequency peer: bud (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « burqa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouvier
bouvier
74,768 corpus weight
- BT
BT
74,767 corpus weight
- bud
bud
74,766 corpus weight
- burqa
burqa
74,765 corpus weight
- buvait
buvait
74,764 corpus weight
- bénigne
bénigne
74,763 corpus weight
What this shows « burqa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burqa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byʁ.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « burqa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around burqa (IPA \byʁ.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,236 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for burqa, with forms such as "bburqa", "bruqa", and "buqra". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Burt", "bury", "bra", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is burqa, spelled B-U-R-Q-A.
Definition
- 1Vêtement souvent bleu qui couvre entièrement la tête et le corps, une grille au niveau des yeux permettant de voir sans être vu.
- 2Voile fixé sur la tête, par-dessus un hijab, et qui couvre la tête avec une fente permettant de voir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how burqa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des députés ouvrent le débat sur le port de la burqa.
Associer l’islam politique aux libéraux de Justin Trudeau n’est pas sans rappeler une des stratégies électorales du Bloc en 2015. Sa publicité sur la burqa avait réussi à torpiller la campagne du NPD et de son chef Thomas Mulcair.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bburqa
- bruqa
- buqra
- buraq
- burqqa
- burrqa
- ubrqa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of burqa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).