Bamberg
\bɑ̃.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“Bamberg” is uncommon French (frequency #57,776 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,776
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Allemagne, située dans le land de Bavière, en Haute-Franconie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bamberg · Bamberg · French
Bamberg · rank #57,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,776
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baladais
Nearest frequency peer: baladais (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Bamberg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- automatic
automatic
42,229 corpus weight
- Auxois
Auxois
42,228 corpus weight
- baladais
baladais
42,226 corpus weight
- Bamberg
Bamberg
42,225 corpus weight
- barbaresques
barbaresques
42,224 corpus weight
- battront
battront
42,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bamberg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bamberg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bamberg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bamberg is uncommon French at frequency #57,776 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɑ̃.bɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Allemagne, située dans le land de Bavière, en Haute-Franconie.".
Bamberg has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Bamberg, spelled B-A-M-B-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Allemagne, située dans le land de Bavière, en Haute-Franconie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bamberg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Evêque de Bamberg est acéphale, & dépend immédiatement du Pape.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).