bellarmine
"bellarmine" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bellarmine” is uncommon English (frequency #82,089 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,089
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A stoneware jug of a pattern that originated around Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century, having a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Counter-Reformation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bellarmine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bellarmine” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bellarmine is uncommon English at frequency #82,089 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A stoneware jug of a pattern that originated around Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century, having a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Counter-Reformation.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bellarmine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is bellarmine, spelled B-E-L-L-A-R-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A stoneware jug of a pattern that originated around Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century, having a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Counter-Reformation.
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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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Using “bellarmine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-L-L-A-R-M-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.