Beowulf
\be.ɔ.wulf\
The verdict
“Beowulf” is uncommon French (frequency #64,961 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,961
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage principal d’un poème anglo-saxon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beowulf · Beowulf · French
Beowulf · rank #64,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,961
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bench
Nearest frequency peer: bench (-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 « Beowulf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BBS
BBS
35,044 corpus weight
- Belval
Belval
35,043 corpus weight
- bem
bem
35,042 corpus weight
- bench
bench
35,041 corpus weight
- Beowulf
Beowulf
35,040 corpus weight
- bienfaisante
bienfaisante
35,038 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Beowulf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beowulf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.ɔ.wulf\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Beowulf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Beowulf is uncommon French at frequency #64,961 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \be.ɔ.wulf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Beowulf, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Beowulf, spelled B-E-O-W-U-L-F.
Definition
- 1Personnage principal d’un poème anglo-saxon.
- 2Titre donné par convention au poème anglo-saxon dont Beowulf est le personnage principal.
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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