Berlinale

\bɛʁ.lɛi.nal\

/\bɛʁ.lɛi.nal\/ name

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The verdict

“Berlinale” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,606
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Festival de cinéma qui se tient chaque année à Berlin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-berlinale · Berlinale · French

Berlinale · rank #46,606 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #46,606
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bellini

Nearest frequency peer: Bellini (-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 « Berlinale »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Berlinale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Berlinale vs berline
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Berlinale
PropertyValue
HeadwordBerlinale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\bɛʁ.lɛi.nal\
Letters9
Frequency rank#46,606
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Berlinale »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Berlinalese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Bellini » (#46,605), « Bertram » (#46,607), « Bellechasse » (#46,604). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Berlinale » est au #46,606. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around Berlinale (IPA \bɛʁ.lɛi.nal\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,606 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Festival de cinéma qui se tient chaque année à Berlin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Berlinale, with forms such as "bberlinale", "belrinale", and "berilnale". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "berline", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Berlinale, spelled B-E-R-L-I-N-A-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Festival de cinéma qui se tient chaque année à Berlin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Berlinale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le deuxième long métrage de Laurent Larivière, À propos de Joan, présenté à la Berlinale cette année, met en lumière une Isabelle Huppert bouleversante.
  2. L’Ukraine sous les projecteurs de la Berlinale.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bberlinale
  • belrinale
  • berilnale
  • berlianle
  • berlinael
  • berlinalle
  • berlinlae
  • berlinnale
  • berllinale
  • berlniale
  • berrlinale
  • brelinale
  • ebrlinale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Berlinale - 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.

bberlinale1belrinale2berilnale2berlianle2berlinael2berlinalle1berlinlae2berlinnale1
Edit distance from "Berlinale"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Berlinale"?
"Berlinale" is spelled B-E-R-L-I-N-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɛʁ.lɛi.nal\.
What does "Berlinale" mean?
As a proper noun, "Berlinale" means: Festival de cinéma qui se tient chaque année à Berlin.
What words are commonly confused with "Berlinale"?
"Berlinale" is commonly confused with "berline". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Berlinale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Berlinale" is \bɛʁ.lɛi.nal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Berlinale" come from?
"Berlinale" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Berlinale", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

attendrir#46,590ardennais#46,580carbonara#46,632cassoulet#46,634

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Bellechasse13 variantsBruckner13 variantsbrushing13 variantschantres13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list