Belgrade
\bɛl.ɡʁad\
The verdict
“Belgrade” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,632
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville et capitale de la république de Serbie, et anciennement capitale de la Yougoslavie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Belgrade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛl.ɡʁad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Belgrade” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Belgrade (IPA \bɛl.ɡʁad\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,632 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Belgrade, with forms such as "bbelgrade", "beglrade", and "belgarde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Belgrade, spelled B-E-L-G-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Ville et capitale de la république de Serbie, et anciennement capitale de la Yougoslavie.
- 2Gouvernement serbe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelgrade
- beglrade
- belgarde
- belggrade
- belgradde
- belgraed
- belgrdae
- belgrrade
- bellgrade
- belrgade
- blegrade
- eblgrade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Belgrade - 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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Using “Belgrade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-L-G-R-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɛl.ɡʁad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.