bernardins
\bɛʁ.naʁ.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“bernardins” is uncommon French (frequency #64,272 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,272
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de bernardin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bernardins · bernardins · French
bernardins · rank #64,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,272
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bercée
Nearest frequency peer: bercée (-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 « bernardins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Berchem
Berchem
35,731 corpus weight
- bercée
bercée
35,730 corpus weight
- bernardins
bernardins
35,729 corpus weight
- beurrer
beurrer
35,727 corpus weight
- Bibeau
Bibeau
35,726 corpus weight
- bienfaitrice
bienfaitrice
35,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bernardins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bernardins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.naʁ.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bernardins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bernardins is uncommon French at frequency #64,272 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɛʁ.naʁ.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de bernardin.".
bernardins doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bernardins, spelled B-E-R-N-A-R-D-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de bernardin.
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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