berlingot
\bɛʁ.lɛ̃.ɡo\
The verdict
“berlingot” is uncommon French (frequency #77,279 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,279
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bonbon de sucre en forme de tétraèdre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berlingot · berlingot · French
berlingot · rank #77,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,279
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bertolt
Nearest frequency peer: Bertolt (+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 « berlingot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Beauvaisis
Beauvaisis
22,726 corpus weight
- beek
beek
22,725 corpus weight
- berlingot
berlingot
22,722 corpus weight
- Bertolt
Bertolt
22,721 corpus weight
- Bethlehem
Bethlehem
22,720 corpus weight
- BFF
BFF
22,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « berlingot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berlingot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.lɛ̃.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « berlingot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
berlingot is uncommon French at frequency #77,279 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛʁ.lɛ̃.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for berlingot in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is berlingot, spelled B-E-R-L-I-N-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Bonbon de sucre en forme de tétraèdre.
- 2Conditionnement de cette forme pour certains liquides, en plastique ou en carton.
- 3Emballage de carton ciré pour le lait, la crème, etc., de forme (parallélépipède surmonté d'un "toit" à deux versants) et contenu (200 et 500 millilitres) standardisée.
- 4Pénis.
- 5Balle d'arme à feu.
- 6Hymen, virginité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how berlingot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Martin admire l’accortise du marchand de berlingots, du juif qui débite de la galette rekaka et des ronds à l'anis, du rôtisseur qui fait fumer sur brasier, dans une caisse de tôle, des brochettes de foie ou des merguez, saucisses à la viande de mouton.
On me lavait les cheveux avec du shampoing Dop. On l’achetait en berlingots. J’aimais bien.
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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