cerbère
\sɛʁ.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“cerbère” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,223. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,223
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gardien sévère, par allusion au chien à trois têtes qui, selon la fable, gardait la porte des Enfers.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerbère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cerbère” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cerbère (IPA \sɛʁ.bɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,223 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cerbère, with forms such as "ccerbère", "cebrère", and "cerbbère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cerner", "cernée", "corbière", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cerbère, spelled C-E-R-B-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Gardien sévère, par allusion au chien à trois têtes qui, selon la fable, gardait la porte des Enfers.
- 2Gardien de but, surtout au hockey.
- 3Meuble représentant l’animal mythologique du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté avec deux têtes tournées à dextre, la troisième contournée, chacune la gueule béante. Une tête de serpent orne l’extrémité de la queue et est orientée à senestre. Il suit les principes de blasonnement des quadrupèdes. À rapprocher de chien, goupil, levrette, lévrier, loup et renard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccerbère
- cebrère
- cerbbère
- cerbere
- cerbrèe
- cerbèer
- cerbèrre
- cerrbère
- cerèbre
- crebère
- ecrbère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cerbère - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “cerbère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E-R-B-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛʁ.bɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cerner” - see the side-by-side comparison. cerbère vs cerner
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
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.