belges
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,311
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
belges is anFrenchadj. It means: Pluriel de belge. Pronounced \bɛlʒ\. It ranks #4,311 in French word frequency. Often confused with blés and belle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \bɛlʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for belges is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛlʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,311 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de belge.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for belges, with forms such as "bbelges", "begles", and "belegs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blés", "belle", "bêtes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is belges, spelled B-E-L-G-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de belge.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbelges,begles,belegs,belgess,belgges,belgse,bellges,bleges,eblges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for belges
Misspelling Variants of "belges"
Frequency rank: #4,311 in French
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