Bertignac
\bɛʁ.ti.ɲa\
The verdict
“Bertignac” is uncommon French (frequency #75,438 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,438
- 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-bertignac · Bertignac · French
Bertignac · rank #75,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,438
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bev
Nearest frequency peer: bev (+2 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 « Bertignac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bassora
Bassora
24,567 corpus weight
- baudis
baudis
24,566 corpus weight
- Bertignac
Bertignac
24,563 corpus weight
- bev
bev
24,561 corpus weight
- Bier
Bier
24,560 corpus weight
- biomédicales
biomédicales
24,559 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bertignac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bertignac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛʁ.ti.ɲa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bertignac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bertignac is uncommon French at frequency #75,438 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɛʁ.ti.ɲa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Bertignac in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bertignac, spelled B-E-R-T-I-G-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bertignac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Louis Bertignac.
… Monsieur Marin écrirait à la craie sur le tableau noir : ci-gît Lou Bertignac, meilleure élève de la classe, asociale et muette.
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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