béribéri
French, noun/be.ʁi.be.ʁi/
béribéri is spelled B-É-R-I-B-É-R-I (8 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Béribéri is a French masculine noun meaning “beriberi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maladie épidémique, une polynévrite chronique avec troubles neurologiques, qui frappe par exemple les…”.
What does béribéri mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineberiberi
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Maladie épidémique, une polynévrite chronique avec troubles neurologiques, qui frappe par exemple les mangeurs de certains riz, tel le riz poli, ou de certains poissons crus, par avitaminose B1.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of béribéri
- béribéris plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce béribéri?
- /be.ʁi.be.ʁi/
- \be.ʁi.be.ʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to béribéri
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is béribéri in French?
béribéri appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).