bergamote
\bɛʁ.ɡa.mɔt\
The verdict
“bergamote” is uncommon French (frequency #66,533 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,533
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit du bergamotier (Citrus bergamia).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bergamote · bergamote · French
bergamote · rank #66,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,533
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH berceuses
Nearest frequency peer: berceuses (-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 « bergamote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bellot
bellot
33,471 corpus weight
- Benguigui
Benguigui
33,470 corpus weight
- berceuses
berceuses
33,469 corpus weight
- bergamote
bergamote
33,468 corpus weight
- beste
beste
33,467 corpus weight
- bestialité
bestialité
33,466 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bergamote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bergamote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.ɡa.mɔt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bergamote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bergamote is uncommon French at frequency #66,533 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛʁ.ɡa.mɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bergamote, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bergamote, spelled B-E-R-G-A-M-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fruit du bergamotier (Citrus bergamia).
- 2Variété de poire très fondante.
- 3Bonbon parfumé à la bergamote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bergamote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est de l’écorce que l’on extrait l’essence de bergamote. — (Gontier Josette, L'oranger, 2000, Actes Sud, collection Le nom de l'arbre, page 26)
Partout dans le monde, les variétés domestiquées (combava, kumquat, lime, cédratier, bergamote, main de Bouddha, chinotto, etc.) enrichissent un étonnant répertoire de saveurs, mais aussi de bienfaits pour la santé.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).