bernard-l’hermite
\bɛʁ.naʁ.lɛʁ.mit\
The verdict
“bernard-l’hermite” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit crustacé qui se loge d’ordinaire dans une coquille abandonnée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bernard-l-hermite · bernard-l’hermite · French
bernard-l’hermite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bernard-l’hermite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.naʁ.lɛʁ.mit\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bernard-l’hermite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛʁ.naʁ.lɛʁ.mit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit crustacé qui se loge d’ordinaire dans une coquille abandonnée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bernard-l’hermite, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bernard-l’hermite, spelled B-E-R-N-A-R-D---L-’-H-E-R-M-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit crustacé qui se loge d’ordinaire dans une coquille abandonnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bernard-l’hermite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À travers les moirures de l’eau, le fond apparaissait nu : pas une algue, pas un bernard-l’hermite, pas même un de ces oursins à longues piques mouvantes qu’on appelle chardons noirs.
Mais une des particularités les plus étranges de la vie de ce crabe, c’est qu’une sorte d’anémone (l’anémone parasite) se fixe sur sa coquille et se fait ainsi transporter par le bernard-l'hermite qui vit, d'ailleurs, en fort bonne intelligence avec elle.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.