bergers
\bɛʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“bergers” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,411
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de berger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bergers · bergers · French
bergers · rank #18,411 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,411
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beige
Nearest frequency peer: beige (-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 « bergers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- baux
baux
81,593 corpus weight
- before
before
81,592 corpus weight
- beige
beige
81,591 corpus weight
- bergers
bergers
81,590 corpus weight
- bitume
bitume
81,589 corpus weight
- blessant
blessant
81,588 corpus weight
What this shows « bergers » 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 | bergers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bergers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bergers (IPA \bɛʁ.ʒe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,411 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de berger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bergers, with forms such as "bbergers", "begrers", and "beregrs". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "burger", "berges", "berner", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bergers, spelled B-E-R-G-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de berger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bergers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Moyen Âge les confond : si, dans les textes, Mélusine s’envole sous forme de serpent, dans l’iconographie qui illustre ses manuscrits elle est femme-serpent ou, le plus souvent, dragon volant ; et de même les « serpents » du Roman de la Violette ou du Lancelot en prose sont figurés comme des dragons ailés jetant du feu ; dans le Calendrier des bergers,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbergers
- begrers
- beregrs
- bergerrs
- bergerss
- bergesr
- berggers
- bergres
- berrgers
- bregers
- ebrgers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bergers - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "bergers", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).