berceau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,789
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
berceau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit lit où l’on couche les nourrissons et qui est disposé pour que l’on puisse le balancer, le bercer, aisément. Pronounced \bɛʁ.so\. It ranks #9,789 in French word frequency. Often confused with bureau and bercer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for berceau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛʁ.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,789 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for berceau, with forms such as "bberceau", "becreau", and "bercaeu". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "bureau", "bercer", "berce", 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 berceau, spelled B-E-R-C-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit lit où l’on couche les nourrissons et qui est disposé pour que l’on puisse le balancer, le bercer, aisément.
- 2Lieu du commencement, du début, de l’origine.
- 3Prime enfance.
- 4Charmille taillée en voûte, treillage de même forme sur lequel on fait monter de la vigne, du jasmin, etc.
- 5Arceau.
- 6Pièce ou chemin courbé dans le plan vertical pour permettre un changement d’inclinaison (pivotement vertical) sans employer d’essieu.
- 7Lavoir à barrage pour certains minerais.
- 8Instrument du graveur en manière noire ; sorte de ciseau terminé par un biseau aigu que l’on promène — en berçant — sur le métal à graver ; on obtient ainsi une série de pointillés, de grains, de petits trous qui retiennent le noir d’impression. L’épreuve obtenue, après l’emploi du berceau, est d’un noir plus velouté. → voir grenure
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bberceau,becreau,bercaeu,bercceau,berceua,berecau,berrceau,breceau,ebrceau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for berceau
Misspelling Variants of "berceau"
Frequency rank: #9,789 in French
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