Belloc
\bɛ.lɔk\
The verdict
“Belloc” is uncommon French (frequency #90,454 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,454
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France, représenté notamment par le médecin Camille Belloc (1807-1876), créateur du charbon de Belloc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belloc · Belloc · French
Belloc · rank #90,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,454
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bekhti
Nearest frequency peer: Bekhti (-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 « Belloc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- beatus
beatus
9,550 corpus weight
- Beauvoisin
Beauvoisin
9,549 corpus weight
- Bekhti
Bekhti
9,548 corpus weight
- Belloc
Belloc
9,547 corpus weight
- Berliet
Berliet
9,546 corpus weight
- Bertrix
Bertrix
9,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Belloc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Belloc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.lɔk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Belloc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Belloc is uncommon French at frequency #90,454 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɛ.lɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille attesté en France, représenté notamment par le médecin Camille Belloc (1807-1876), créateur du charbon de Belloc.".
Belloc doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Belloc, spelled B-E-L-L-O-C.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté en France, représenté notamment par le médecin Camille Belloc (1807-1876), créateur du charbon de Belloc.
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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