belettes
\bə.lɛt\
The verdict
“belettes” is uncommon French (frequency #82,722 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,722
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de belette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belettes · belettes · French
belettes · rank #82,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,722
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Belair
Nearest frequency peer: Belair (-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 « belettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- behaviour
behaviour
17,281 corpus weight
- Belair
Belair
17,280 corpus weight
- belettes
belettes
17,279 corpus weight
- Bellefeuille
Bellefeuille
17,278 corpus weight
- Benicio
Benicio
17,277 corpus weight
- bergier
bergier
17,274 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « belettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « belettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
belettes is uncommon French at frequency #82,722 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bə.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de belette.".
belettes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is belettes, spelled B-E-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de belette.
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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