burrito
\bu.ʁi.to\
The verdict
“burrito” is uncommon French (frequency #72,141 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,141
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tortilla à la farine de blé garnie de divers ingrédients.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burrito · burrito · French
burrito · rank #72,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,141
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH butiner
Nearest frequency peer: butiner (+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 « burrito »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brno
Brno
27,865 corpus weight
- bruitage
bruitage
27,863 corpus weight
- burrito
burrito
27,860 corpus weight
- butiner
butiner
27,859 corpus weight
- bénissent
bénissent
27,856 corpus weight
- Béotie
Béotie
27,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « burrito » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burrito |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁi.to\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « burrito » en français
Rare enough to double-check
burrito is uncommon French at frequency #72,141 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁi.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tortilla à la farine de blé garnie de divers ingrédients.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for burrito, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 burrito, spelled B-U-R-R-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Tortilla à la farine de blé garnie de divers ingrédients.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how burrito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je m’arrêtai dans une station-service où un type obèse assis derrière le comptoir avec un burrito débordant de haricots, d’œufs et de fromage me salua d’un signe de tête.
Un sandwich enroulé (wrap en anglais) dans une tortilla de blé, voilà l’idée toute simple née en Californie dans les années 1990. Digne descendant du burrito, le wrap n’a pas tardé à conquérir le monde, tant il se prête à toutes les variations.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).