berre
\ˈbɛ.ʀɨ\
The verdict
“berre” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,187) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,187
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de berrar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berre · berre · French
berre · rank #47,187 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,187
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH below
Nearest frequency peer: below (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « berre »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Bashung
Bashung
52,817 corpus weight
- bela
bela
52,816 corpus weight
- below
below
52,815 corpus weight
- berre
berre
52,814 corpus weight
- Beveren
Beveren
52,813 corpus weight
- billion
billion
52,812 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « berre » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | berre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbɛ.ʀɨ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « berre »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for berre is neighbouring look-alikes ("bre", "brie", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈbɛ.ʀɨ\. Frequency #47,187 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for berre, with forms such as "bberre", "berer", and "brere". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bre", "brie", "Bert", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is berre, spelled B-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de berrar.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de berrar.
- 3Troisième personne du singulier de l’impératif de berrar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberre
- berer
- brere
- ebrre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of berre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "berre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).