berthon
\bɛʁ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“berthon” is uncommon French (frequency #95,600 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,600
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit canot pliable en bois et en toile peinte, créé pour la marine française.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berthon · berthon · French
berthon · rank #95,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,600
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH berlinette
Nearest frequency peer: berlinette (-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 « berthon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- benedictus
benedictus
4,404 corpus weight
- Berlaymont
Berlaymont
4,403 corpus weight
- berlinette
berlinette
4,402 corpus weight
- berthon
berthon
4,401 corpus weight
- Betz
Betz
4,400 corpus weight
- bigouden
bigouden
4,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « berthon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berthon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « berthon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
berthon is uncommon French at frequency #95,600 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛʁ.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit canot pliable en bois et en toile peinte, créé pour la marine française.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for berthon, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is berthon, spelled B-E-R-T-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit canot pliable en bois et en toile peinte, créé pour la marine française.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how berthon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon travail terminé, après un repas sommaire, je mis à l'eau mon berthon et ramai vers la terre.
le 18, natation, plongeon, course de plates, course avec obstacles des berthons de sous-marins, match de football entre l'équipe de l'escadre et l'équipe du Havre.
Synonyms
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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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