Bélarus
\be.la.ʁys\
The verdict
“Bélarus” is uncommon French (frequency #66,557 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,557
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Europe, entouré par la Lettonie, la Lituanie et la Russie au nord, l’Ukraine au sud, et la Pologne à l’ouest. Sa capitale est Minsk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belarus · Bélarus · French
Bélarus · rank #66,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,557
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Byblos
Nearest frequency peer: Byblos (-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 « Bélarus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brush
brush
33,449 corpus weight
- Burg
Burg
33,446 corpus weight
- Byblos
Byblos
33,445 corpus weight
- Bélarus
Bélarus
33,444 corpus weight
- Bérengère
Bérengère
33,442 corpus weight
- cador
cador
33,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bélarus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bélarus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \be.la.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bélarus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bélarus is uncommon French at frequency #66,557 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \be.la.ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pays d’Europe, entouré par la Lettonie, la Lituanie et la Russie au nord, l’Ukraine au sud, et la Pologne à l’ouest. Sa capitale est Minsk.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bélarus, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Bélarus, spelled B-É-L-A-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Europe, entouré par la Lettonie, la Lituanie et la Russie au nord, l’Ukraine au sud, et la Pologne à l’ouest. Sa capitale est Minsk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bélarus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Bélarus a indiqué que la majorité de sa population a voté, lors d’un référendum organisé en 1996, pour le maintien de la peine de mort.
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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