Berliner
\beːɐ.ˈliː.nɐ\
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
- Batavia
Batavia
48,092 corpus weight
- bauxite
bauxite
48,090 corpus weight
- Berliner
Berliner
48,088 corpus weight
- berlinoise
berlinoise
48,087 corpus weight
- bia
bia
48,086 corpus weight
- biliaires
biliaires
48,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Berliner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Berliner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \beːɐ.ˈliː.nɐ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Berliner » en français
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
- 1Berlinois (relatif à la ville de Berlin en Allemagne).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Berliner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der 1. FC Union wird aller Voraussicht nach seine Champions-League-Spiele im Berliner Olympiastadion austragen.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).