berserk
\bɛʁ.zɛʁk\
The verdict
“berserk” is uncommon French (frequency #53,159 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,159
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berserk · berserk · French
berserk · rank #53,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,159
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beretta
Nearest frequency peer: beretta (-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 « berserk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bemba
bemba
46,845 corpus weight
- bend
bend
46,844 corpus weight
- beretta
beretta
46,843 corpus weight
- berserk
berserk
46,842 corpus weight
- Bettina
Bettina
46,841 corpus weight
- binationaux
binationaux
46,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « berserk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « berserk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
berserk is uncommon French at frequency #53,159 among 4,251 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how berserk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] alors débordera de nouveau la férocité des anciens combattans, l’exaltation frénétique des berserkers, que les poètes du Nord chantent encore aujourd’hui.
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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