berserker
\bɛʁ.zɛʁ.kəʁ\
The verdict
“berserker” is uncommon French (frequency #88,382 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,382
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guerrier qui a la capacité d’entrer dans une rage incontrôlable le rendant insensible à la douleur, voire invincible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berserker · berserker · French
berserker · rank #88,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,382
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Berryer
Nearest frequency peer: Berryer (-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 « berserker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BEPC
BEPC
11,623 corpus weight
- Berryer
Berryer
11,620 corpus weight
- berserker
berserker
11,619 corpus weight
- berti
berti
11,618 corpus weight
- bibine
bibine
11,617 corpus weight
- Bigeard
Bigeard
11,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « berserker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berserker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.zɛʁ.kəʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « berserker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
berserker is uncommon French at frequency #88,382 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛʁ.zɛʁ.kəʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Guerrier qui a la capacité d’entrer dans une rage incontrôlable le rendant insensible à la douleur, voire invincible.".
berserker has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is berserker, spelled B-E-R-S-E-R-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Guerrier qui a la capacité d’entrer dans une rage incontrôlable le rendant insensible à la douleur, voire invincible.
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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