se bourrer la gueule
\sə bu.ʁe la ɡœl\
The verdict
“se bourrer la gueule” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Boire à l’excès, s’enivrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se bourrer la gueule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə bu.ʁe la ɡœl\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se bourrer la gueule” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se bourrer la gueule is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə bu.ʁe la ɡœl\. 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: "Boire à l’excès, s’enivrer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for se bourrer la gueule, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is se bourrer la gueule, spelled S-E- -B-O-U-R-R-E-R- -L-A- -G-U-E-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Boire à l’excès, s’enivrer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “se bourrer la gueule”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -B-O-U-R-R-E-R- -L-A- -G-U-E-U-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə bu.ʁe la ɡœl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.