béryl
\be.ʁil\
The verdict
“béryl” is uncommon French (frequency #86,499 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,499
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce minérale du groupe des silicates sous groupe des cyclosilicates composé de formule Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beryl · béryl · French
béryl · rank #86,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,499
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH C2C
Nearest frequency peer: C2C (+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 « béryl »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- burritos
burritos
13,506 corpus weight
- Busson
Busson
13,505 corpus weight
- béryl
béryl
13,502 corpus weight
- C2C
C2C
13,501 corpus weight
- caban
caban
13,500 corpus weight
- Caesars
Caesars
13,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « béryl » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | béryl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ʁil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « béryl » en français
Rare enough to double-check
béryl is uncommon French at frequency #86,499 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.ʁil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce minérale du groupe des silicates sous groupe des cyclosilicates composé de formule Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈.".
Zero misspellings are on record for béryl in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is béryl, spelled B-É-R-Y-L.
Definition
- 1Espèce minérale du groupe des silicates sous groupe des cyclosilicates composé de formule Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how béryl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Afin d’en finir avec cette orfèvrerie symbolique, disons encore que […] la sarde évoque les Séraphins, la topaze les Chérubins, le jaspe les Trônes, la chrysolithe les Dominations, le saphir les Vertus, l’onyx les Puissances, le béryl les Principautés, le rubis les Archanges et l’émeraude les Anges.
Le béryl vert est l’émeraude tandis que la variété bleutée est l’aigue-marine.
This word in other languages
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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