iceberg
\is.bɛʁɡ\
The verdict
“iceberg” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,163. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,163
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bloc de glace d’eau douce, détaché du front des glaciers polaires ou d’une barrière flottante, dérivant sur l’océan en fondant peu à peu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iceberg · iceberg · French
iceberg · rank #20,163 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,163
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hésitant
Nearest frequency peer: hésitant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « iceberg »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hype
hype
79,841 corpus weight
- hélice
hélice
79,840 corpus weight
- hésitant
hésitant
79,839 corpus weight
- iceberg
iceberg
79,838 corpus weight
- idéologies
idéologies
79,837 corpus weight
- impartialité
impartialité
79,836 corpus weight
What this shows « iceberg » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iceberg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \is.bɛʁɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « iceberg »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around iceberg (IPA \is.bɛʁɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,163 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bloc de glace d’eau douce, détaché du front des glaciers polaires ou d’une barrière flottante, dérivant sur l’océan en fondant peu à peu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for iceberg, with forms such as "cieberg", "icbeerg", and "icceberg". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is iceberg, spelled I-C-E-B-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1Bloc de glace d’eau douce, détaché du front des glaciers polaires ou d’une barrière flottante, dérivant sur l’océan en fondant peu à peu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how iceberg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Francisque Michel adresse une note sur un appareil destiné à signaler automatiquement la présence autour des navires de blocs de glace flottants ou icebergs… le jour, à moins d'un brouillard intense, les icebergs, frappés par les rayons du soleil, se voient à de grandes distances.
La surface du lac Snure était prise encore. […]. Quelques icebergs en ruine hérissaient sa surface solide, affectant des formes pittoresques du plus étrange effet.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cieberg
- icbeerg
- icceberg
- icebberg
- icebegr
- icebergg
- iceberrg
- icebreg
- iceebrg
- iecberg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of iceberg - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).