Bérégovoy
\be.ʁe.ɡɔ.vɔj\
The verdict
“Bérégovoy” is uncommon French (frequency #57,800 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,800
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patronyme russe (Bérégovoy est la transcription adoptée par une famille française d’origine russe qui a donné un Premier ministre à la France (Pierre Bérégovoy, 1925-1993) ; la transcription telle ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-beregovoy · Bérégovoy · French
Bérégovoy · rank #57,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,800
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bâtissent
Nearest frequency peer: bâtissent (-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 « Bérégovoy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- broadcast
broadcast
42,204 corpus weight
- Bukowski
Bukowski
42,203 corpus weight
- bâtissent
bâtissent
42,202 corpus weight
- Bérégovoy
Bérégovoy
42,201 corpus weight
- cabillaud
cabillaud
42,200 corpus weight
- cairns
cairns
42,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bérégovoy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bérégovoy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.ʁe.ɡɔ.vɔj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bérégovoy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bérégovoy is uncommon French at frequency #57,800 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \be.ʁe.ɡɔ.vɔj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Patronyme russe (Bérégovoy est la transcription adoptée par une famille française d’origine russe qui a donné un Premier ministre à la France (Pierre Bérégovoy, 1925-1993) ; la transcription telle ...".
Bérégovoy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists 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 Bérégovoy, spelled B-É-R-É-G-O-V-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Patronyme russe (Bérégovoy est la transcription adoptée par une famille française d’origine russe qui a donné un Premier ministre à la France (Pierre Bérégovoy, 1925-1993) ; la transcription telle qu’habituellement pratiquée aujourd’hui est Beregovoï).
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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