bestseller
\bɛst.sɛ.lœʁ\
The verdict
“bestseller” is uncommon French (frequency #79,981 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,981
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meilleure vente en parlant de marchandise, de produits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bestseller · bestseller · French
bestseller · rank #79,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,981
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bertier
Nearest frequency peer: Bertier (-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 « bestseller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bergeries
bergeries
20,023 corpus weight
- bernoise
bernoise
20,022 corpus weight
- Bertier
Bertier
20,021 corpus weight
- bestseller
bestseller
20,020 corpus weight
- Betts
Betts
20,018 corpus weight
- beys
beys
20,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bestseller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bestseller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛst.sɛ.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bestseller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bestseller is uncommon French at frequency #79,981 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛst.sɛ.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bestseller in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bestseller, spelled B-E-S-T-S-E-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Meilleure vente en parlant de marchandise, de produits.
- 2Succès en parlant de vente de livres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bestseller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La version "homme" de notre dernier parfum est un bestseller.
C'est le bestseller de l'été.
Antonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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