berrichon
\bɛ.ʁi.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“berrichon” is uncommon French (frequency #83,642 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,642
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Originaire du Berry, relatif au Berry, à ses habitants, ou sa culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berrichon · berrichon · French
berrichon · rank #83,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,642
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH berra
Nearest frequency peer: berra (-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 « berrichon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- belliqueuses
belliqueuses
16,365 corpus weight
- berra
berra
16,360 corpus weight
- berrichon
berrichon
16,359 corpus weight
- Bescond
Bescond
16,356 corpus weight
- bez
bez
16,355 corpus weight
- bidouillé
bidouillé
16,354 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « berrichon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berrichon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛ.ʁi.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « berrichon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
berrichon is uncommon French at frequency #83,642 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɛ.ʁi.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Originaire du Berry, relatif au Berry, à ses habitants, ou sa culture.".
berrichon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is berrichon, spelled B-E-R-R-I-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Originaire du Berry, relatif au Berry, à ses habitants, ou sa culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how berrichon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais qu’il ouvre la bouche et qu’il parle, un sourire d’enfant éclaire son visage et la voix, éraillée par la phtisie, est sympathique, avec son reste d’accent berrichon et son arrière-goût de lutrin.
Guerre vaine, où l’on ne capturera pas des chevaux-légers bleus, des hussards blancs, mais dans la même veste grise, des garçons de café, des peintres de Dresde qui découpent déjà en cubes la sentinelle berrichonne qui les conduit à l’arrière.
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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