Belasco
"belasco" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Belasco” is uncommon English (frequency #79,297 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,297
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-belasco · Belasco · English
Belasco · rank #79,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,297
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Beeson
Nearest frequency peer: Beeson (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Belasco”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bechdel
Bechdel
20,709 corpus weight
- beery
beery
20,707 corpus weight
- Beeson
Beeson
20,706 corpus weight
- Belasco
Belasco
20,704 corpus weight
- Bentinck
Bentinck
20,702 corpus weight
- Berglund
Berglund
20,701 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Belasco” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Belasco |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Belasco” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Belasco is uncommon English at frequency #79,297 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Belasco has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Belasco, itself of Basque origin. The correct English form is Belasco, spelled B-E-L-A-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Belasco, itself of Basque origin.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).