Béland
The verdict
“Béland” is uncommon French (frequency #81,844 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,844
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beland · Béland · French
Béland · rank #81,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,844
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH béguinage
Nearest frequency peer: béguinage (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Béland »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- butcher
butcher
18,160 corpus weight
- Béchu
Béchu
18,159 corpus weight
- béguinage
béguinage
18,158 corpus weight
- Béland
Béland
18,157 corpus weight
- bétonner
bétonner
18,156 corpus weight
- cabeza
cabeza
18,154 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Béland » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Béland |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Béland » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Béland is uncommon French at frequency #81,844 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Béland, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Béland, spelled B-É-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Béland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le visiteur y devient acteur, pratiquant l’art dans une variété de situations : il s’effraie dans un « Train-fantasme », mesure son adresse sur un mur de cibles de Jacob Dahigren, exerce sa puissance physique avec les jeux de force de Pilar Albarracin, revit le plaisir d’un tour de manège de Pierre Ardouvin, s’immerge dans les milliers de ballons de Marti…
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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