belles
\bɛl\
The verdict
“belles” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,430. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,430
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif beau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belles · belles · French
belles · rank #1,430 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,430
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH anniversaire
Nearest frequency peer: anniversaire (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « belles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- unité
unité
98,574 corpus weight
- établisseme…
établissement
98,573 corpus weight
- anniversaire
anniversaire
98,572 corpus weight
- belles
belles
98,571 corpus weight
- Bruxelles
Bruxelles
98,570 corpus weight
- café
café
98,569 corpus weight
What this shows « belles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | belles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « belles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around belles (IPA \bɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,430 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for belles, with forms such as "bbelles", "belels", and "beles". 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, "blés", "bulle", "bêtes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is belles, spelled B-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif beau.
- 2Se joint pareillement à divers autres termes par une espèce de redondance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’armoire vitrée devait être son fief avec quelques belles porcelaines jamais utilisées, ses manuels d’école, de chants, les jeux de famille, peut-être son panier de tricot, son nécessaire de couture.
Les belles-lettres → voir lettres
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelles
- belels
- beles
- belless
- bellse
- bleles
- eblles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belles - 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 "belles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).