belga
\bɛl.ɡa\
The verdict
“belga” is uncommon French (frequency #54,427 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,427
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne monnaie Belge créée le 25 octobre 1926 et qui sera utilisée jusqu’à la seconde guerre mondiale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belga · belga · French
belga · rank #54,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,427
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beam
Nearest frequency peer: beam (-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 « belga »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barnum
barnum
45,577 corpus weight
- Batum
Batum
45,576 corpus weight
- beam
beam
45,575 corpus weight
- belga
belga
45,574 corpus weight
- benjamine
benjamine
45,573 corpus weight
- billions
billions
45,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « belga » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛl.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « belga » en français
Rare enough to double-check
belga is uncommon French at frequency #54,427 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛl.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne monnaie Belge créée le 25 octobre 1926 et qui sera utilisée jusqu’à la seconde guerre mondiale.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for belga, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 belga, spelled B-E-L-G-A.
Definition
- 1Ancienne monnaie Belge créée le 25 octobre 1926 et qui sera utilisée jusqu’à la seconde guerre mondiale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un belga valait cinq francs belges.
Le belga, monnaie de change, est un simple multiple du franc.
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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