beginning
\bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“beginning” is uncommon French (frequency #59,827 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,827
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Début, avènement, commencement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beginning · beginning · French
beginning · rank #59,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,827
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beale
Nearest frequency peer: beale (-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 « beginning »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BBW
BBW
40,177 corpus weight
- BDD
BDD
40,176 corpus weight
- beale
beale
40,175 corpus weight
- beginning
beginning
40,174 corpus weight
- behavior
behavior
40,173 corpus weight
- beurres
beurres
40,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beginning » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beginning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beginning » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beginning is uncommon French at frequency #59,827 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Début, avènement, commencement.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for beginning in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is beginning, spelled B-E-G-I-N-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Début, avènement, commencement.
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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