bellon
\be.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“bellon” is uncommon French (frequency #63,552 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,552
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand cuvier de pressoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bellon · bellon · French
bellon · rank #63,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,552
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beaumanoir
Nearest frequency peer: Beaumanoir (-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 « bellon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- basait
basait
36,453 corpus weight
- Beaumanoir
Beaumanoir
36,450 corpus weight
- bellon
bellon
36,449 corpus weight
- Bigfoot
Bigfoot
36,448 corpus weight
- binge
binge
36,446 corpus weight
- Birkenau
Birkenau
36,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bellon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bellon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bellon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bellon is uncommon French at frequency #63,552 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bellon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bellon, spelled B-E-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Grand cuvier de pressoir.
- 2Ancien nom du saturnisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bellon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dit « gueulebée » en Seine et Marne, le bellon était un cuvier fixé par des chaînes sur une charrette pour transporter le raisin.
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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