Berthier
The verdict
“Berthier” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,339. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,339
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berthier · Berthier · French
Berthier · rank #27,339 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,339
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bengale
Nearest frequency peer: Bengale (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Berthier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- BBQ
BBQ
72,665 corpus weight
- Bengale
Bengale
72,663 corpus weight
- Berthier
Berthier
72,662 corpus weight
- bet
bet
72,661 corpus weight
- bilatérale
bilatérale
72,660 corpus weight
- bocage
bocage
72,659 corpus weight
What this shows « Berthier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Berthier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Berthier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Berthier, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,339 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Berthier, with forms such as "bberthier", "berhtier", and "berrthier". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "berthe", "Bernier", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Berthier, spelled B-E-R-T-H-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Berthier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De toutes les maîtresses de maison où il dînait, Mme Berthier était la seule que Pons nommât de son petit nom : il lui disait : « Félicie ! » et il croyait parfois être compris par elle.
Pour certains renseignements historiques, nous avons consulté les livres de l’abbé Dussert, du professeur Caillet, de Berthier et de de Marliave.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberthier
- berhtier
- berrthier
- bertheir
- berthhier
- berthierr
- berthire
- bertiher
- bertthier
- betrhier
- brethier
- ebrthier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Berthier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Berthier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).