débourse
\de.buʁs\
The verdict
“débourse” is uncommon French (frequency #81,081 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,081
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de débourser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debourse · débourse · French
débourse · rank #81,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,081
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décante
Nearest frequency peer: décante (+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 « débourse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dudes
dudes
18,925 corpus weight
- débourse
débourse
18,920 corpus weight
- décante
décante
18,919 corpus weight
- décernant
décernant
18,918 corpus weight
- déchausser
déchausser
18,917 corpus weight
- déclinait
déclinait
18,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débourse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débourse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.buʁs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débourse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débourse is uncommon French at frequency #81,081 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.buʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for débourse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 débourse, spelled D-É-B-O-U-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de débourser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de débourser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de débourser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de débourser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de débourser.
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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