Berthout

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Berthout » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Berthout
PropertyValue
HeadwordBerthout
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#97,704
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Berthout » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Berthouttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « bernaches » (#97,703), « benthiques » (#97,702), « biar » (#97,706). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Berthout » est au #97,704. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Berthout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Berthout"?
"Berthout" is spelled B-E-R-T-H-O-U-T.
What does "Berthout" mean?
As a proper noun, "Berthout" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Berthout" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Berthout", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list