Berliner

\beːɐ.ˈliː.nɐ\

/\beːɐ.ˈliː.nɐ\/ adj

The verdict

“Berliner” is uncommon French (frequency #51,913 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,913
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berlinois (relatif à la ville de Berlin en Allemagne).

Corpus desk

Index FR-berliner · Berliner · French

Berliner · rank #51,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,913
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH berlinoise

Nearest frequency peer: berlinoise (+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 « Berliner »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Berliner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Berliner
PropertyValue
HeadwordBerliner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\beːɐ.ˈliː.nɐ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,913
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Berliner » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Berlinertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « berlinoise » (#51,914), « bauxite » (#51,911), « bia » (#51,915). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Berliner » est au #51,913. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Berliner is uncommon French at frequency #51,913 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \beːɐ.ˈliː.nɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Berlinois (relatif à la ville de Berlin en Allemagne).".

Berliner has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented 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 Berliner, spelled B-E-R-L-I-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Berlinois (relatif à la ville de Berlin en Allemagne).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Der 1. FC Union wird aller Voraussicht nach seine Champions-League-Spiele im Berliner Olympiastadion austragen.
  2. So viel parteiübergreifenden Respekt gibt es selten: Die AfD hat heute vor ihrer Berliner Zentrale eine goldene Statue von Friedrich Merz aufgestellt. Damit will die Partei die Verdienste des CDU-Chefs würdigen.

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 "Berliner"?
"Berliner" is spelled B-E-R-L-I-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \beːɐ.ˈliː.nɐ\.
What does "Berliner" mean?
As an adjective, "Berliner" means: Berlinois (relatif à la ville de Berlin en Allemagne).
How do you pronounce "Berliner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Berliner" is \beːɐ.ˈliː.nɐ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list