belles
[bɛl]
The verdict
“belles” is uncommon German (frequency #80,136 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,136
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural Femininum des Adjektivs beau
Corpus desk
Index DE-belles · belles · German
belles · rank #80,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,136
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beiliegenden
Nearest frequency peer: beiliegenden (-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 „belles“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- behutsame
behutsame
19,868 corpus weight
- behüten
behüten
19,867 corpus weight
- beiliegenden
beiliegenden
19,866 corpus weight
- belles
belles
19,865 corpus weight
- bemannten
bemannten
19,864 corpus weight
- berechnend
berechnend
19,862 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „belles“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belles |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bɛl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „belles“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
belles is uncommon German at frequency #80,136 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [bɛl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural Femininum des Adjektivs beau".
belles has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is belles, spelled B-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural Femininum des Adjektivs beau
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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