débours
\de.buʁ\
The verdict
“débours” is uncommon French (frequency #75,621 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,621
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Argent déboursé par quelqu’un pour le compte d’autrui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debours · débours · French
débours · rank #75,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,621
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dutertre
Nearest frequency peer: Dutertre (-2 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 « débours »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Drieu
Drieu
24,385 corpus weight
- duodénum
duodénum
24,383 corpus weight
- Dutertre
Dutertre
24,382 corpus weight
- débours
débours
24,380 corpus weight
- déclenchera…
déclencherait
24,378 corpus weight
- décrocheurs
décrocheurs
24,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débours » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débours » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débours is uncommon French at frequency #75,621 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Argent déboursé par quelqu’un pour le compte d’autrui.".
débours has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is débours, spelled D-É-B-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Argent déboursé par quelqu’un pour le compte d’autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how débours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Solange refusa de faire un aussi gros débours.
Cette somme se trouvait grevée de beaucoup de frais notables : frais de succession, frais d’étude et, surtout, frais de recherches, réclamés par les agences péruviennes. L’ensemble de ces débours s’élevait – j’ai conservé toutes ces affreuses paperasses – au chiffre effarant de sept mille trois cent quinze francs.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).