Bergson
\bɛʁɡ.sɔn\
The verdict
“Bergson” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,396
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bergson · Bergson · French
Bergson · rank #35,396 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,396
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bienveillants
Nearest frequency peer: bienveillants (+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 « Bergson »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bathurst
Bathurst
64,608 corpus weight
- batista
batista
64,607 corpus weight
- Bergson
Bergson
64,605 corpus weight
- bienveillan…
bienveillants
64,604 corpus weight
- Blagnac
Blagnac
64,603 corpus weight
- blaireaux
blaireaux
64,602 corpus weight
What this shows « Bergson » 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 | Bergson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁɡ.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bergson »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Bergson (IPA \bɛʁɡ.sɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,396 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bergson, with forms such as "bbergson", "begrson", and "berggson". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "besson", "bergen", "Bergman", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Bergson, spelled B-E-R-G-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
- 2Nom du philosophe français Henri Bergson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bergson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Pour le lycée Brassens, l’objectif est de fermer un établissement de petite dimension et de renvoyer les élèves qui ont des horaires aménagés (musique, danse, sport) vers le lycée Bergson, pour remonter le niveau et l’image du lycée Bergson », croit savoir aussi Emmanuel Garot, porte-parole de la Peep.
Dans les théories de Bergson sur « le moi social et le moi profond » je reconnus avec enthousiasme ma propre expérience.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbergson
- begrson
- berggson
- bergosn
- bergsno
- bergsonn
- bergsson
- berrgson
- bersgon
- bregson
- ebrgson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bergson - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).