Belfast
\bɛl.fast\
The verdict
“Belfast” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,363. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,363
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de l’Irlande du Nord, dans le comté d’Antrim.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belfast · Belfast · French
Belfast · rank #31,363 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,363
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BDS
Nearest frequency peer: BDS (-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 « Belfast »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Avranches
Avranches
68,641 corpus weight
- baïonnette
baïonnette
68,640 corpus weight
- BDS
BDS
68,639 corpus weight
- Belfast
Belfast
68,638 corpus weight
- bercail
bercail
68,637 corpus weight
- Berlinois
Berlinois
68,636 corpus weight
What this shows « Belfast » 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 | Belfast |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛl.fast\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Belfast »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Belfast (IPA \bɛl.fast\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,363 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capitale de l’Irlande du Nord, dans le comté d’Antrim.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Belfast, with forms such as "bbelfast", "beflast", and "belafst". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "blast", "Belfort", "beast", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Belfast, spelled B-E-L-F-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1Capitale de l’Irlande du Nord, dans le comté d’Antrim.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Belfast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des affiches de mai 68 aux murals républicains de Belfast, des caricatures anti-tsaristes de la révolution russe de 1905 au drapeau arc-en-ciel des militants pacifistes, des placards « ouvriers » de Jules Grandjouan au badge « Touche pas à mon pote » de SOS racisme, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelfast
- beflast
- belafst
- belfasst
- belfastt
- belfats
- belffast
- belfsat
- bellfast
- blefast
- eblfast
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Belfast - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Belfast", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).