berce
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,177
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
berce is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante de la famille des Apiacées, croissant et se développant dans les terrains humides de toute l'Europe. Pronounced \bɛʁs\. Often confused with bre and brie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for berce is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,177 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for berce, with forms such as "bberce", "becre", and "bercce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bre", "brie", "Bert", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is berce, spelled B-E-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Apiacées, croissant et se développant dans les terrains humides de toute l'Europe.
- 2Plante de la famille des Apiacées, croissant et se développant dans les terrains humides de toute l'Europe.
- 3Plante de la famille des Apiacées, croissant et se développant dans les terrains humides de toute l'Europe.
- 4Plante de la famille des Apiacées, croissant et se développant dans les terrains humides de toute l'Europe.
- 5Essence de berce brancursine et essence de fruit de berce géante.
- 6Bières ou liqueurs de berce, boissons très alcoolisées fabriquées en Lituanie, en Pologne et en Russie par la fermentation de graines et de feuilles de berce.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bberce,becre,bercce,berec,berrce,brece,ebrce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for berce
Misspelling Variants of "berce"
Frequency rank: #39,177 in French
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