berlinette
\bɛʁ.li.nɛt\
The verdict
“berlinette” is uncommon French (frequency #95,599 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,599
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voiture sportive à deux portes, plus proche du coupé que de la berline.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berlinette · berlinette · French
berlinette · rank #95,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,599
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Berlaymont
Nearest frequency peer: Berlaymont (-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 « berlinette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Belaïd
Belaïd
4,406 corpus weight
- benedictus
benedictus
4,404 corpus weight
- Berlaymont
Berlaymont
4,403 corpus weight
- berlinette
berlinette
4,402 corpus weight
- berthon
berthon
4,401 corpus weight
- Betz
Betz
4,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « berlinette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berlinette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.li.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « berlinette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
berlinette is uncommon French at frequency #95,599 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛʁ.li.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voiture sportive à deux portes, plus proche du coupé que de la berline.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for berlinette in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is berlinette, spelled B-E-R-L-I-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Voiture sportive à deux portes, plus proche du coupé que de la berline.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how berlinette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La berlinette est bâtie sur un châssis poutre, habillée d’une carrosserie en fibre de verre, et son habitacle à la présentation plutôt artisanale fait le minimum en équipement.
This word in other languages
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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