sur les bords
\syʁ lɛ bɔʁ\
The verdict
“sur les bords” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Légèrement, un peu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sur les bords |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \syʁ lɛ bɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sur les bords” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sur les bords is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ lɛ bɔʁ\. 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: "Légèrement, un peu.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sur les bords, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sur les bords, spelled S-U-R- -L-E-S- -B-O-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Légèrement, un peu.
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 “sur les bords”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-U-R- -L-E-S- -B-O-R-D-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \syʁ lɛ bɔʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.