berserk
\bɛʁ.zɛʁk\
The verdict
“berserk” is uncommon French (frequency #53,159 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,159
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Guerrier, fervent adorateur d’Odin, qui tirait une grande force du loup ou de l’ours et qui peut entrer dans une fureur sacrée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berserk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.zɛʁk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “berserk” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
berserk is uncommon French at frequency #53,159 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛʁ.zɛʁk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for berserk in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 berserk, spelled B-E-R-S-E-R-K.
Definition
- 1Guerrier, fervent adorateur d’Odin, qui tirait une grande force du loup ou de l’ours et qui peut entrer dans une fureur sacrée.
- 2Guerrier puissant qui a la capacité d’entrer dans une rage incontrôlable le rendant insensible à la douleur et aux blessures.
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); 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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Using “berserk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-R-S-E-R-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.