bells
\ˈbɛl\
The verdict
“bells” is uncommon French (frequency #59,110 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,110
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bell.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bells · bells · French
bells · rank #59,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,110
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bedroom
Nearest frequency peer: bedroom (-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 « bells »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bazaar
bazaar
40,895 corpus weight
- bebop
bebop
40,893 corpus weight
- bedroom
bedroom
40,892 corpus weight
- bells
bells
40,891 corpus weight
- Besiktas
Besiktas
40,890 corpus weight
- bibliophiles
bibliophiles
40,888 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bells » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bells |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bells » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bells is uncommon French at frequency #59,110 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bell.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bells in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bells, spelled B-E-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bell.
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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