Belisarius
/ˌbɛlɪˈsɛəɹi.əs/
"belisarius" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Belisarius” is uncommon English (frequency #91,285 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,285
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A general of the Byzantine Empire, who was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had be...
Corpus desk
Index EN-belisarius · Belisarius · English
Belisarius · rank #91,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,285
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bencher
Nearest frequency peer: bencher (+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 “Belisarius”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bathymetric
bathymetric
8,727 corpus weight
- Battersby
Battersby
8,725 corpus weight
- Belisarius
Belisarius
8,716 corpus weight
- bencher
bencher
8,714 corpus weight
- biggin
biggin
8,708 corpus weight
- bilious
bilious
8,707 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Belisarius” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Belisarius |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌbɛlɪˈsɛəɹi.əs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Belisarius” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Belisarius is uncommon English at frequency #91,285 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌbɛlɪˈsɛəɹi.əs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A general of the Byzantine Empire, who was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had be...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Belisarius, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Belisarius, from Byzantine Greek Βελισάριος (Belisários). The correct English form is Belisarius, spelled B-E-L-I-S-A-R-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1A general of the Byzantine Empire, who was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously.
Etymology
From Latin Belisarius, from Byzantine Greek Βελισάριος (Belisários).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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