bernaches
\bɛʁ.naʃ\
The verdict
“bernaches” is uncommon French (frequency #97,703 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,703
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bernache.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bernaches · bernaches · French
bernaches · rank #97,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,703
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH benthiques
Nearest frequency peer: benthiques (-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 « bernaches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- beloved
beloved
2,301 corpus weight
- benthiques
benthiques
2,299 corpus weight
- bernaches
bernaches
2,298 corpus weight
- Berthout
Berthout
2,297 corpus weight
- biar
biar
2,295 corpus weight
- bioclimatiq…
bioclimatique
2,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bernaches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bernaches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.naʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bernaches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bernaches is uncommon French at frequency #97,703 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛʁ.naʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bernache.".
bernaches has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bernaches, spelled B-E-R-N-A-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bernache.
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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