belang
\bəˈlaŋ\
The verdict
“belang” is uncommon French (frequency #74,594 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,594
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de belangen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belang · belang · French
belang · rank #74,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,594
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beloeil
Nearest frequency peer: Beloeil (+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 « belang »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barrait
barrait
25,412 corpus weight
- bayart
bayart
25,409 corpus weight
- belang
belang
25,407 corpus weight
- Beloeil
Beloeil
25,406 corpus weight
- belong
belong
25,405 corpus weight
- Benveniste
Benveniste
25,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « belang » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belang |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəˈlaŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « belang » en français
Rare enough to double-check
belang is uncommon French at frequency #74,594 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bəˈlaŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de belangen.".
No misspelling variants are generated for belang in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is belang, spelled B-E-L-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de belangen.
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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