belon
\bə.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“belon” is uncommon French (frequency #71,280 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,280
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appellation autrefois réservée aux seules huîtres matures élevées en parcs à Riec-sur-Bélon en Bretagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belon · belon · French
belon · rank #71,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,280
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bazile
Nearest frequency peer: Bazile (-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 « belon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baptistes
baptistes
28,725 corpus weight
- barbichette
barbichette
28,724 corpus weight
- Bazile
Bazile
28,722 corpus weight
- belon
belon
28,721 corpus weight
- bengals
bengals
28,719 corpus weight
- Besnier
Besnier
28,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « belon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « belon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
belon is uncommon French at frequency #71,280 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bə.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
belon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is belon, spelled B-E-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Appellation autrefois réservée aux seules huîtres matures élevées en parcs à Riec-sur-Bélon en Bretagne.
- 2Nom vulgaire de l’huître indigène sauvage sur tout le territoire français et qui est élevée depuis l’époque des Romains (Ostrea edulis).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il leur [trois négociants écaillers] est reproché d’intituler belons toutes les huîtres plates sans distinction, causant ainsi un préjudice à la production des parcs de Riec-sur-Bélon (Finistère).
Le terme « belon » qui, vers 1890, désignait encore des huîtres effectivement arrivées à maturité à l’embouchure de la rivière portant ce nom dans le Finistère, a fait l’objet d’un procès il y a quelques années à Paris.
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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