berline
\bɛʁ.lin\
The verdict
“berline” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,075
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de grande voiture hippomobile fermée, suspendue, à deux fonds et à quatre roues, dont on se servait surtout pour le voyage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berline · berline · French
berline · rank #16,075 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,075
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH been
Nearest frequency peer: been (-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 « berline »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bagues
bagues
83,929 corpus weight
- Bamako
Bamako
83,928 corpus weight
- been
been
83,927 corpus weight
- berline
berline
83,926 corpus weight
- bingo
bingo
83,925 corpus weight
- BNP
BNP
83,924 corpus weight
What this shows « berline » 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 | berline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.lin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « berline »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around berline (IPA \bɛʁ.lin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,075 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for berline, with forms such as "bberline", "belrine", and "berilne". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "berne", "Bernie", "Bertin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 berline, spelled B-E-R-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de grande voiture hippomobile fermée, suspendue, à deux fonds et à quatre roues, dont on se servait surtout pour le voyage.
- 2Automobile fermée par un toit rigide et fixe, avec un pare-brise fixe, deux ou quatre portes latérales.
- 3Wagonnet sur rails utilisé pour le transport du minerai du fond de la mine jusqu’au puits d’extraction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how berline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand Sainte-Austreberthe descendit de sa chambre, à huit heures du matin, il trouva le préfet qui faisait placer sur les coussins de la berline une vingtaine de dossiers, enveloppés chacun dans une couverture annotée, et l’on partit aussitôt par les allées de Tourny.
Ayez donc appris que le « tarantass » est une sorte de berline, reposant sur cinq pièces de bois assez élastiques, entre des roues largement espacées et de moyenne hauteur, que cette voiture est conduite par un « yemtchik » […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberline
- belrine
- berilne
- berlien
- berlinne
- berlline
- berlnie
- berrline
- breline
- ebrline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of berline - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).