Berlin
\bɛʁ.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“Berlin” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,758
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de l’Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berlin · Berlin · French
Berlin · rank #2,758 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,758
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH auras
Nearest frequency peer: auras (-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 « Berlin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- appui
appui
97,246 corpus weight
- attaques
attaques
97,245 corpus weight
- auras
auras
97,244 corpus weight
- Berlin
Berlin
97,243 corpus weight
- big
big
97,242 corpus weight
- billet
billet
97,241 corpus weight
What this shows « Berlin » 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 | Berlin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Berlin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Berlin (IPA \bɛʁ.lɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,758 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Berlin, with forms such as "bberlin", "belrin", and "beriln". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "brin", "bern", "berri", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Berlin, spelled B-E-R-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Capitale de l’Allemagne.
- 2Un des seize Länder qui constituent la République fédérale d’Allemagne.
- 3Le gouvernement allemand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Berlin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Berlin ! à Berlin ! Maurice entendit ce cri hurlé par la foule grouillante des boulevards, pendant la nuit de fol enthousiasme, qui l’avait décidé à s’engager.
– À Berlin ! à Berlin ! criait toujours la voix sur un air Déroulède.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberlin
- belrin
- beriln
- berlinn
- berllin
- berlni
- berrlin
- brelin
- ebrlin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Berlin - 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 "Berlin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).