bela
The verdict
“bela” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,185) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,185
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bela · bela · French
bela · rank #47,185 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,185
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bashung
Nearest frequency peer: Bashung (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bela »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- barrent
barrent
52,819 corpus weight
- Basel
Basel
52,818 corpus weight
- Bashung
Bashung
52,817 corpus weight
- bela
bela
52,816 corpus weight
- below
below
52,815 corpus weight
- berre
berre
52,814 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bela » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bela »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bela is neighbouring look-alikes ("BL", "ben", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #47,185 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bela, with forms such as "bbela", "beal", and "blea". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BL", "ben", "bol", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 French form is bela, spelled B-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Voile.
- 2Nautisme à voile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bela appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
bela latindar.
haizea jotzen hasi zen eta belak zabaltzea erabaki zuen.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbela
- beal
- blea
- ebla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bela - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bela", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).