Bartholomew
\bɑɹ.ˈθɑl.ə.mju\
The verdict
“Bartholomew” is uncommon French (frequency #63,547 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,547
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, équivalent à Barthélémy.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bartholomew · Bartholomew · French
Bartholomew · rank #63,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,547
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basait
Nearest frequency peer: basait (+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 « Bartholomew »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bananiers
bananiers
36,458 corpus weight
- bandelette
bandelette
36,457 corpus weight
- Banville
Banville
36,456 corpus weight
- Bartholomew
Bartholomew
36,454 corpus weight
- basait
basait
36,453 corpus weight
- Beaumanoir
Beaumanoir
36,450 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bartholomew » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bartholomew |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɑɹ.ˈθɑl.ə.mju\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bartholomew » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bartholomew is uncommon French at frequency #63,547 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɑɹ.ˈθɑl.ə.mju\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin, équivalent à Barthélémy.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bartholomew, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Bartholomew, spelled B-A-R-T-H-O-L-O-M-E-W.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin, équivalent à Barthélémy.
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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