poix de Bourgogne
\pwa də buʁ.ɡɔɲ\
The verdict
“poix de Bourgogne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Poix de couleur brun-jaune, obtenue par incision des troncs d'épicéa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poix de Bourgogne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa də buʁ.ɡɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poix de Bourgogne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poix de Bourgogne is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa də buʁ.ɡɔɲ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Poix de couleur brun-jaune, obtenue par incision des troncs d'épicéa.".
No misspelling variants are generated for poix de Bourgogne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is poix de Bourgogne, spelled P-O-I-X- -D-E- -B-O-U-R-G-O-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poix de couleur brun-jaune, obtenue par incision des troncs d'épicéa.
Synonyms
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