bell
\bɛl\
The verdict
“bell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,055) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,055
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de bellen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bell · bell · French
bell · rank #6,055 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,055
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aérien
Nearest frequency peer: aérien (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bell »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- autrui
autrui
93,949 corpus weight
- aviez
aviez
93,948 corpus weight
- aérien
aérien
93,947 corpus weight
- bell
bell
93,946 corpus weight
- boules
boules
93,945 corpus weight
- Carl
Carl
93,944 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bell » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bell |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bell »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bell is neighbouring look-alikes ("BL", "ben", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \bɛl\. Frequency #6,055 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de bellen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for bell, with forms such as "bbell", "blel", and "ebll". 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, "BL", "ben", "bol", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bell, spelled B-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de bellen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbell
- blel
- ebll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bell - 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 "bell", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).