Bélanger
\be.lɑ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“Bélanger” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,676
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belanger · Bélanger · French
Bélanger · rank #29,676 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,676
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bénir
Nearest frequency peer: bénir (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bélanger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Brisbane
Brisbane
70,329 corpus weight
- brouhaha
brouhaha
70,328 corpus weight
- brésiliennes
brésiliennes
70,327 corpus weight
- Bélanger
Bélanger
70,325 corpus weight
- bénir
bénir
70,324 corpus weight
- californien…
californienne
70,322 corpus weight
What this shows « Bélanger » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Bélanger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.lɑ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bélanger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Bélanger (IPA \be.lɑ̃.ʒe\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,676 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bélanger, with forms such as "bbélanger", "belanger", and "bléanger". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Bérenger", "Béranger", "boulanger", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 French form is Bélanger, spelled B-É-L-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bélanger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sophie, dont on parlait beaucoup, voulut imposer silence au public, et feignit un mariage avec l'architecte Bélanger.
Mais il cherchait en vain quels pouvaient être les voleurs, et le récit de Noémie Bélanger lui revenait à la mémoire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbélanger
- belanger
- bléanger
- béalnger
- bélagner
- bélanegr
- bélangerr
- bélangger
- bélangre
- bélannger
- béllanger
- bélnager
- éblanger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bélanger - 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 "Bélanger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).