beleive
"beleive" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beleive” is uncommon English (frequency #55,269 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,269
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Misspelling of believe.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beleive · beleive · English
beleive · rank #55,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,269
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Becks
Nearest frequency peer: Becks (-1 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 “beleive”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bartolo
Bartolo
44,738 corpus weight
- basaltic
basaltic
44,737 corpus weight
- beanstalk
beanstalk
44,736 corpus weight
- Becks
Becks
44,733 corpus weight
- beleive
beleive
44,732 corpus weight
- Berea
Berea
44,728 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “beleive” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beleive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “beleive” in English
Rare enough to double-check
beleive is uncommon English at frequency #55,269 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Misspelling of believe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beleive, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is beleive, spelled B-E-L-E-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Misspelling of believe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how beleive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“I am come my amiable Rebecca, to take my leave of you for the fortnight I am destined to spend with my aunt. Beleive me this separation is painfull to me, but it is as neceſsary as the labour which now engages you.”
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).