béryl
\be.ʁil\
The verdict
“béryl” is an uncommon French word, ranked #86,499 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #86,499
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce minérale du groupe des silicates sous groupe des cyclosilicates composé de formule Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈.
| 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) |
Where “béryl” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for béryl is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \be.ʁil\. Corpus data places it at rank #86,499 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “béryl”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-É-R-Y-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \be.ʁil\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.