birth
\bɜː(ɹ)θ\
The verdict
“birth” is uncommon French (frequency #53,806 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,806
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Naissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-birth · birth · French
birth · rank #53,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,806
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bignon
Nearest frequency peer: bignon (-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 « birth »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Beauval
Beauval
46,198 corpus weight
- Bellanger
Bellanger
46,197 corpus weight
- bignon
bignon
46,196 corpus weight
- birth
birth
46,195 corpus weight
- blanchot
blanchot
46,193 corpus weight
- bleuté
bleuté
46,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « birth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | birth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɜː(ɹ)θ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « birth » en français
Rare enough to double-check
birth is uncommon French at frequency #53,806 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɜː(ɹ)θ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
birth has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is birth, spelled B-I-R-T-H.
Definition
- 1Naissance.
- 2Naissance, origine.
- 3Accouchement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how birth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly. “He has been lame in one foot from his birth.
The birth of an empire.
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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