Birkenau
The verdict
“Birkenau” is uncommon French (frequency #63,556 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,556
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Allemagne, située dans la Hesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-birkenau · Birkenau · French
Birkenau · rank #63,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,556
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH binge
Nearest frequency peer: binge (-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 « Birkenau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bellon
bellon
36,449 corpus weight
- Bigfoot
Bigfoot
36,448 corpus weight
- binge
binge
36,446 corpus weight
- Birkenau
Birkenau
36,445 corpus weight
- Blanchett
Blanchett
36,443 corpus weight
- BMO
BMO
36,441 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Birkenau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Birkenau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Birkenau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Birkenau is uncommon French at frequency #63,556 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Birkenau in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Birkenau, spelled B-I-R-K-E-N-A-U.
Definition
- 1Commune d’Allemagne, située dans la Hesse.
- 2Nom allemand de Brzezinka, en Pologne, camp de concentration proche d’Auschwitz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Birkenau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je refusais de poursuivre tant que je n’avais pas trouvé, cela pouvait durer plusieurs heures, plusieurs jours, une fois trois semaines même, je ne suis pas près de l’oublier : c’était après environ trente-cinq minutes de film, je cherchais le moyen de faire apparaître pour la première fois à l’écran Birkenau, le grand porche de Birkenau, sinistre oiseau…
Comparée par les internautes à l’entrée de l’ex-camp d’Auschwitz-Birkenau, l’enseigne a été retirée, mardi.
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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