berk
\bɛʁk\
The verdict
“berk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,669
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exprime le dégoût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berk · berk · French
berk · rank #39,669 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,669
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bent
Nearest frequency peer: bent (-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 « berk »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Benito
Benito
60,335 corpus weight
- bent
bent
60,333 corpus weight
- berk
berk
60,332 corpus weight
- biff
biff
60,331 corpus weight
- bolivar
bolivar
60,329 corpus weight
- Bollywood
Bollywood
60,328 corpus weight
What this shows « berk » 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 | berk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \bɛʁk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « berk »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around berk (IPA \bɛʁk\), anonomatopoeia. Corpus frequency is #39,669 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Exprime le dégoût.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for berk, with forms such as "bberk", "bekr", and "berkk". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Br", "BK", "bey", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is berk, spelled B-E-R-K.
Definition
- 1Exprime le dégoût.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how berk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On répandit l'idée que les Roms n'étaient qu'un ramassis de feignants dont la feignantise détraquait le bon fonctionnement du monde libre. Pour faire bonne mesure, on ajouta qu'ils faisaient n'importe où, qu'ils mangeaient de la chair de hérisson, berk!, qu'ils se livraient à des danses lascives […].
Si vous ne vous sentez pas bien à cause de vos douleurs de règles, dites : « Je ne me sens pas bien à cause de mes douleurs de règles. » Si quelqu’un fait : « Ah berk », faites valoir (gentiment) que c’est cette réaction qui est inappropriée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberk
- bekr
- berkk
- berrk
- brek
- ebrk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of berk - 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 "berk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).