Bergerac
\bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁak\
The verdict
“Bergerac” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,116
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Dordogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bergerac · Bergerac · French
Bergerac · rank #23,116 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,116
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH between
Nearest frequency peer: between (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bergerac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- beer
beer
76,888 corpus weight
- Bergerac
Bergerac
76,885 corpus weight
- between
between
76,884 corpus weight
- blogueurs
blogueurs
76,883 corpus weight
- bloquées
bloquées
76,882 corpus weight
- Blum
Blum
76,881 corpus weight
What this shows « Bergerac » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bergerac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bergerac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Bergerac (IPA \bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁak\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,116 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Dordogne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bergerac, with forms such as "bbergerac", "begrerac", and "beregrac". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "bergers", "bergère", "bergeron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Bergerac, spelled B-E-R-G-E-R-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Dordogne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bergerac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Combien d’habitants, à Bergerac ? — Dans les seize mille… Tout me porte à croire que le fou appartient à une classe sociale supérieure…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbergerac
- begrerac
- beregrac
- bergearc
- bergeracc
- bergerca
- bergerrac
- berggerac
- bergreac
- berrgerac
- bregerac
- ebrgerac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bergerac - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bergerac", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).