belladone
\be.la.dɔn\
The verdict
“belladone” is uncommon French (frequency #78,175 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,175
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante vénéneuse, de la famille des Solanacées, qui est employée en médecine (Atropa belladonna).
Corpus desk
Index FR-belladone · belladone · French
belladone · rank #78,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,175
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bellas
Nearest frequency peer: bellas (+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 « belladone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- beatbox
beatbox
21,830 corpus weight
- bede
bede
21,828 corpus weight
- belladone
belladone
21,826 corpus weight
- bellas
bellas
21,825 corpus weight
- Belloubet
Belloubet
21,824 corpus weight
- Benidorm
Benidorm
21,823 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « belladone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belladone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.la.dɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « belladone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
belladone is uncommon French at frequency #78,175 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.la.dɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante vénéneuse, de la famille des Solanacées, qui est employée en médecine (Atropa belladonna).".
Zero misspellings are on record for belladone in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is belladone, spelled B-E-L-L-A-D-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plante vénéneuse, de la famille des Solanacées, qui est employée en médecine (Atropa belladonna).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belladone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois, Madge, qui avait soigné plusieurs cas de scarlatine, connaissait l’efficacité de la teinture de belladone.
Les plantes narcotiques, plantes à aspect triste & presque sinistre, ne manquent pas non plus dans les Ardennes, car on trouve la belladone à Saint-Aignan, Vendresse, &c., la jusquiame à Noyers, Artaise-le-Vivier, Villers-le-Tourneur, &c. ; l’Atropa physaloides, subspontanée près de Sedan, de même que le Datura stramonium.
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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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