Berlaymont
\bɛʁ.lɛ.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“Berlaymont” is uncommon French (frequency #95,598 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,598
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Batiment de Bruxelles, siège de la Commission européenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berlaymont · Berlaymont · French
Berlaymont · rank #95,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,598
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH benedictus
Nearest frequency peer: benedictus (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Berlaymont »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Belaïd
Belaïd
4,406 corpus weight
- benedictus
benedictus
4,404 corpus weight
- Berlaymont
Berlaymont
4,403 corpus weight
- berlinette
berlinette
4,402 corpus weight
- berthon
berthon
4,401 corpus weight
- Betz
Betz
4,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Berlaymont » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Berlaymont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.lɛ.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Berlaymont » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Berlaymont is uncommon French at frequency #95,598 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɛʁ.lɛ.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Berlaymont doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Berlaymont, spelled B-E-R-L-A-Y-M-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Batiment de Bruxelles, siège de la Commission européenne.
- 2La Commission européenne elle-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Berlaymont appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant la construction du Berlaymont, dans les années 60, il y avait à cet endroit là, une école. Elle avait été fondée par la comtesse Marguerite de Berlaymont. Les Berlaymont c’est une grande famille belge originaire d’un petit village du Nord de la France: Berlaimont. Un village, d’ailleurs, qui pendant très longtemps a fait partie du Hainaut.
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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