bellarmine
"bellarmine" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bellarmine” is uncommon English (frequency #82,089 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,089
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bellarmine · bellarmine · English
bellarmine · rank #82,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,089
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH behaviorally
Nearest frequency peer: behaviorally (-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 “bellarmine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- baze
baze
17,918 corpus weight
- BBG
BBG
17,917 corpus weight
- Beeman
Beeman
17,914 corpus weight
- behaviorally
behaviorally
17,913 corpus weight
- bellarmine
bellarmine
17,912 corpus weight
- belligerence
belligerence
17,911 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bellarmine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “bellarmine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bellarmine is uncommon English at frequency #82,089 among 4,121 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bellarmine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A bellarmine found in Westminster, which, when found, was corked up, and in it were found some old pins and rusty nails; it had been probably used in the art of Black Magic.
Synonyms
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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