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“borgne” and “bornée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,912
- “borgne” frequency rank
- #37,696
- “bornée” frequency rank
- 63608
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | borgne | bornée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui ne voit que d’un œil, à qui il manque un œil. | Féminin singulier de borné. |
Where the eye mixes borgne and bornée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: borgne vs bornée
A purely visual mix-up. borgne (\bɔʁɲ\) and bornée (\bɔʁ.ne\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63608, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
borgne is recorded at frequency rank #25,912, classified as anadj, pronounced \bɔʁɲ\. bornée is at rank #37,696, tagged as anadj, pronounced \bɔʁ.ne\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 63608, this pair ranks #81,129 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of borgne vs bornée
Shared letters: benor. Private to "borgne": g. Private to "bornée": é.
"borgne" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV · "bornée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- borgne ← bborgne · bogrne · borgen · borggne · borgnne · bornge · borrgne · brogne
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "borgne" for "bornée" ever safe?
Frequency check: "borgne" vs "bornée" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "borgne" and "bornée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "borgne" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bornée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #81,129 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "borgne" and "bornée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bordés vs bornée". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #81,129 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.