Belfort
\bɛl.fɔʁ\
The verdict
“Belfort” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,421. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,421
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Territoire de Belfort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belfort · Belfort · French
Belfort · rank #14,421 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,421
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baume
Nearest frequency peer: baume (-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 « Belfort »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- augmentatio…
augmentations
85,584 corpus weight
- baume
baume
85,581 corpus weight
- Belfort
Belfort
85,580 corpus weight
- binaire
binaire
85,579 corpus weight
- building
building
85,578 corpus weight
- champignon
champignon
85,577 corpus weight
What this shows « Belfort » 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 | Belfort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛl.fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Belfort »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Belfort (IPA \bɛl.fɔʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,421 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Belfort, with forms such as "bbelfort", "beflort", and "belffort". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Belmont", "before", "Belfast", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Belfort, spelled B-E-L-F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Territoire de Belfort.
- 2Ancien nom de la commune d’Aïn Tine dans la wilaya de Mila en Algérie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelfort
- beflort
- belffort
- belforrt
- belfortt
- belfotr
- belfrot
- bellfort
- belofrt
- blefort
- eblfort
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Belfort - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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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).