Bernard
\bɛʁ.naʁ\
The verdict
“Bernard” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,850
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bernard · Bernard · French
Bernard · rank #1,850 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,850
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH autorités
Nearest frequency peer: autorités (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bernard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aimer
aimer
98,154 corpus weight
- aurai
aurai
98,153 corpus weight
- autorités
autorités
98,152 corpus weight
- Bernard
Bernard
98,151 corpus weight
- biens
biens
98,150 corpus weight
- bordel
bordel
98,149 corpus weight
What this shows « Bernard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bernard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.naʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bernard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Bernard (IPA \bɛʁ.naʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,850 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bernard, with forms such as "bbernard", "benrard", and "beranrd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "berner", "bonnard", "Bernardo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Bernard, spelled B-E-R-N-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bernard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Camille Laurin, René Lévesque, Bernard Landry et Jacques Parizeau doivent se retourner dans leur tombe.
C’est autour de la côte de Domancy, en Haute-Savoie, celle qui avait sacré Bernard Hinault en 1980, que devraient se dérouler les épreuves.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbernard
- benrard
- beranrd
- bernadr
- bernardd
- bernarrd
- bernnard
- bernrad
- berrnard
- brenard
- ebrnard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bernard - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bernard", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).