best of
\bɛs.t‿ɔf\
The verdict
“best of” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compilation des chansons à succès d’un chanteur ou d’un groupe musical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-best-of · best of · French
best of · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | best of |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛs.t‿ɔf\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
best of is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛs.t‿ɔf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for best of, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is best of, spelled B-E-S-T- -O-F.
Definition
- 1Compilation des chansons à succès d’un chanteur ou d’un groupe musical.
- 2Compilation des meilleures choses.
- 3Compilation des pires choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how best of appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 31 décembre 2007, après l’émission Happy Rock Hours, le best of de 2007, Europe 2 a cessé d’exister en terminant par la chanson Take Me Out de Franz Ferdinand.
Règle générale, on en réinvente pas, pour un débat, ses arguments. On présente ses meilleurs. Comme on dit en France, son best of.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.