Berchtesgaden
\bɛʁçtəsˈɡaːdn̩\
The verdict
“Berchtesgaden” is uncommon French (frequency #99,911 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,911
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berchtesgaden.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berchtesgaden · Berchtesgaden · French
Berchtesgaden · rank #99,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,911
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH berque
Nearest frequency peer: berque (+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 « Berchtesgaden »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BDR
BDR
94 corpus weight
- Berchtesgad…
Berchtesgaden
90 corpus weight
- berque
berque
89 corpus weight
- bevin
bevin
88 corpus weight
- bibliophilie
bibliophilie
86 corpus weight
- biefs
biefs
85 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Berchtesgaden » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Berchtesgaden |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁçtəsˈɡaːdn̩\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #99,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Berchtesgaden » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Berchtesgaden is uncommon French at frequency #99,911 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɛʁçtəsˈɡaːdn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Berchtesgaden.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Berchtesgaden in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Berchtesgaden, spelled B-E-R-C-H-T-E-S-G-A-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1Berchtesgaden.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Berchtesgaden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bayerns Bartgeier gedeihen prächtig: Der Landesbund für Vogelschutz wildert dieser Tage wieder zwei Exemplare im Nationalpark Berchtesgaden aus.
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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