berle
French, noun/bɛʁl/
berle is spelled B-E-R-L-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Berle is a French feminine noun meaning “water parsnip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de plantes de la famille des ombellifères (genre Sium spp.) comprenant de 4 à 12 espèces, dont…”.
What does berle mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewater parsnip
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de plantes de la famille des ombellifères (genre Sium spp.) comprenant de 4 à 12 espèces, dont certaines sont regardées comme antiscorbutiques et sont cultivées pour leurs racines vivifiantes ou comestibles, et qui inclut le chervis (S. sisarum) et la grande berle (S. latifolium).
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 berle
- berles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce berle?
- /bɛʁl/
- \bɛʁl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is berle in French?
berle appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).