belle
\bɛl\
The verdict
“belle” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #398
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui a de la beauté, de l’agrément, et, d’une manière générale, une femme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belle · belle · French
belle · rank #398 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #398
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aide
Nearest frequency peer: aide (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “belle”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- afin
afin
99,606 corpus weight
- ah
ah
99,605 corpus weight
- aide
aide
99,604 corpus weight
- belle
belle
99,603 corpus weight
- choix
choix
99,602 corpus weight
- Française
Française
99,601 corpus weight
What this shows “belle” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | belle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “belle” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around belle (IPA \bɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #398 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for belle, with forms such as "bbelle", "bele", and "belel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blé", "blue", "bull", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is belle, spelled B-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui a de la beauté, de l’agrément, et, d’une manière générale, une femme.
- 2Partie qui doit décider de l’avantage entre deux joueurs ayant eu jusque-là des chances égales.
- 3Embelle.
- 4La liberté, pour le prisonnier.
- 5Petite amie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souvent m’esbats, et mon cœur est marri : Je vis en deuil et en grand’ déplaisance, Toutes les fois qu’il me vient souvenance De la belle qui vers moi a failli.
J’admire les discours que tenoit cette belle, Quand, tout ravy de l’écouter, Je fus quelque temps à douter Si quelque Dieu parloit en elle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelle
- bele
- belel
- blele
- eblle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belle - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "belle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).