burst
\bœʁst\
The verdict
“burst” is uncommon French (frequency #72,985 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,985
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique de jeu vidéo consistant à infliger une forte concentration de dégâts en un laps de temps très court, souvent utilisée pour neutraliser rapidement un adversaire, notamment dans les RPG et ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-burst · burst · French
burst · rank #72,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,985
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bundesbank
Nearest frequency peer: Bundesbank (-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 « burst »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brumeuse
brumeuse
27,019 corpus weight
- Bundesbank
Bundesbank
27,017 corpus weight
- burst
burst
27,016 corpus weight
- bégaie
bégaie
27,015 corpus weight
- Bénarès
Bénarès
27,014 corpus weight
- cadrent
cadrent
27,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « burst » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bœʁst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « burst » en français
Rare enough to double-check
burst is uncommon French at frequency #72,985 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bœʁst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
burst doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is burst, spelled B-U-R-S-T.
Definition
- 1Technique de jeu vidéo consistant à infliger une forte concentration de dégâts en un laps de temps très court, souvent utilisée pour neutraliser rapidement un adversaire, notamment dans les RPG et les MOBA.
- 2Technique de tir en rafale avec une arme automatique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how burst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(...) ensuite c'est juste que le burst de ce champion est bien abusé à ce qu'on peut voir pour un ranged scaling late (...)
Il joue un très grand role dans le burst de Diana je suis désolé, ou alors on n'a pas la même façon de la jouer.
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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