Bérard
\be.ʁaʁ\
The verdict
“Bérard” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,841. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,841
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, notamment porté par Christian Bérard, illustrateur et décorateur français (1902-1949).
Corpus desk
Index FR-berard · Bérard · French
Bérard · rank #35,841 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,841
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buveurs
Nearest frequency peer: buveurs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bérard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brochettes
brochettes
64,166 corpus weight
- burnes
burnes
64,163 corpus weight
- bustes
bustes
64,162 corpus weight
- buveurs
buveurs
64,161 corpus weight
- Bérard
Bérard
64,160 corpus weight
- canaris
canaris
64,155 corpus weight
What this shows « Bérard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bérard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.ʁaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bérard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bérard (IPA \be.ʁaʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,841 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, notamment porté par Christian Bérard, illustrateur et décorateur français (1902-1949).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bérard, with forms such as "bbérard", "berard", and "bréard". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "brad", "berry", "board", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Bérard, spelled B-É-R-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, notamment porté par Christian Bérard, illustrateur et décorateur français (1902-1949).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bérard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aurais aimé être sûre que Denoël appelât citations les personnages mêmes de Cocteau et Bérard ; ne sont-ils pas, en vérité, quelque chose que l’auteur souhaitait voir exprimé et qu’il a déjà trouvé tout exprimé, pour ainsi dire « dans le commerce » ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbérard
- berard
- bréard
- béarrd
- béradr
- bérardd
- bérarrd
- bérrad
- bérrard
- ébrard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bérard - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).