Berthout
The verdict
“Berthout” is uncommon French (frequency #97,704 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,704
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-berthout · Berthout · French
Berthout · rank #97,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,704
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bernaches
Nearest frequency peer: bernaches (-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 « Berthout »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- beloved
beloved
2,301 corpus weight
- benthiques
benthiques
2,299 corpus weight
- bernaches
bernaches
2,298 corpus weight
- Berthout
Berthout
2,297 corpus weight
- biar
biar
2,295 corpus weight
- bioclimatiq…
bioclimatique
2,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Berthout » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Berthout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Berthout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Berthout is uncommon French at frequency #97,704 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Berthout, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Berthout, spelled B-E-R-T-H-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Berthout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’adjointe a récemment échangé avec la maire du 5ᵉ arrondissement, Florence Berthout, au sujet de sa volonté d’étendre la mesure aux agents de la Ville de Paris.
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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