Belize
[bəˈliːs]
The verdict
“Belize” is uncommon German (frequency #63,151 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,151
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staat auf der Halbinsel Yucatán
Corpus desk
Index DE-belize · Belize · German
Belize · rank #63,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,151
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Beliebigkeit
Nearest frequency peer: Beliebigkeit (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Belize“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- beiderseiti…
beiderseitigen
36,854 corpus weight
- bekleckert
bekleckert
36,852 corpus weight
- Beliebigkeit
Beliebigkeit
36,851 corpus weight
- Belize
Belize
36,850 corpus weight
- beratender
beratender
36,847 corpus weight
- bereicherte
bereicherte
36,846 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Belize“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Belize |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [bəˈliːs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Belize“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Belize is uncommon German at frequency #63,151 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [bəˈliːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Staat auf der Halbinsel Yucatán".
Zero misspellings are on record for Belize in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Belize, spelled B-E-L-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Staat auf der Halbinsel Yucatán
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Belize appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1973 wurde Britisch-Honduras in Belize umbenannt.
Im Regenwald Belizes findet man einige Tausend Pflanzenarten, darunter 200 Orchideen.
Synonyms
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).