bellâtre
\bɛ.lɑtʁ\
The verdict
“bellâtre” is uncommon French (frequency #87,364 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,364
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme chez qui l’impression de beauté est gâtée par un air de prétention niaise et de contentement de soi-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bellatre · bellâtre · French
bellâtre · rank #87,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,364
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bastonner
Nearest frequency peer: bastonner (-4 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 « bellâtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bardin
Bardin
12,644 corpus weight
- bastonner
bastonner
12,641 corpus weight
- bellâtre
bellâtre
12,637 corpus weight
- Bertille
Bertille
12,633 corpus weight
- besogneux
besogneux
12,632 corpus weight
- bichonner
bichonner
12,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bellâtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bellâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.lɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bellâtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bellâtre is uncommon French at frequency #87,364 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛ.lɑtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme chez qui l’impression de beauté est gâtée par un air de prétention niaise et de contentement de soi-même.".
bellâtre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bellâtre, spelled B-E-L-L-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Homme chez qui l’impression de beauté est gâtée par un air de prétention niaise et de contentement de soi-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bellâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était bien le bellâtre que ses antécédents annonçaient ; mais l’âge l’avait déjà doté d’un petit ventre rond assez difficile à contenir dans les bornes de l’élégance.
— Le peintre Jacques Silvert ? Ai-je bien entendu ? Ce bellâtre sans sou ni maille à qui tu as fait l’aumône ?…
This word in other languages
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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