Beirut
\beɪ.ˈɹuːt\
The verdict
“Beirut” is uncommon French (frequency #72,109 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,109
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beyrouth.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beirut · Beirut · French
Beirut · rank #72,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,109
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beaudet
Nearest frequency peer: Beaudet (-2 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 « Beirut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barreur
barreur
27,897 corpus weight
- barricader
barricader
27,896 corpus weight
- barros
barros
27,895 corpus weight
- Beaudet
Beaudet
27,894 corpus weight
- Beirut
Beirut
27,892 corpus weight
- besognes
besognes
27,889 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Beirut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beirut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \beɪ.ˈɹuːt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Beirut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Beirut is uncommon French at frequency #72,109 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \beɪ.ˈɹuːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Beyrouth.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Beirut, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Beirut, spelled B-E-I-R-U-T.
Definition
- 1Beyrouth.
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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