Berkeley
The verdict
“Berkeley” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,543. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,543
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville d’Angleterre située dans le district de Stroud.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Berkeley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Berkeley” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Berkeley, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,543 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Berkeley, with forms such as "bberkeley", "bekreley", and "berekley". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Berkeley, spelled B-E-R-K-E-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Angleterre située dans le district de Stroud.
- 2Ville de Californie, près de la baie de San Francisco.
- 3Ville de Californie, près de la baie de San Francisco.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberkeley
- bekreley
- berekley
- berkeely
- berkeleyy
- berkelley
- berkelye
- berkkeley
- berkleey
- berrkeley
- brekeley
- ebrkeley
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Berkeley - 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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Using “Berkeley”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-R-K-E-L-E-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.