Belgium
\ˈbɛl.dʒəm\
The verdict
“Belgium” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,220
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Belgique (pays d’Europe).
Corpus desk
Index FR-belgium · Belgium · French
Belgium · rank #25,220 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,220
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bellevue
Nearest frequency peer: Bellevue (+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 « Belgium »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- banquise
banquise
74,785 corpus weight
- barrée
barrée
74,784 corpus weight
- Bayeux
Bayeux
74,783 corpus weight
- Belgium
Belgium
74,781 corpus weight
- Bellevue
Bellevue
74,780 corpus weight
- binaires
binaires
74,778 corpus weight
What this shows « Belgium » 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 | Belgium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɛl.dʒəm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Belgium »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Belgium (IPA \ˈbɛl.dʒəm\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,220 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Belgique (pays d’Europe).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Belgium, with forms such as "bbelgium", "beglium", and "belggium". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Belgique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Belgium, spelled B-E-L-G-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Belgique (pays d’Europe).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelgium
- beglium
- belggium
- belgimu
- belgiumm
- belguim
- beligum
- bellgium
- blegium
- eblgium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Belgium - 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 "Belgium", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).