Tier five of five
How to spell bourgeois
What it means
of the middle class
How it sounds
/bʊˈrʒwɑ/
Why it catches people out
Bourg (town) + eois. The vowels after the g run e-o-i.
The spellings people reach for
- bourgois
- bourgeoise
- borgeois
In a sentence
The critique was dismissed as bourgeois.