belong
\bɪ.ˈlɒŋ\
The verdict
“belong” is uncommon French (frequency #74,596 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,596
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Suivi de to) : appartenir à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belong · belong · French
belong · rank #74,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,596
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beloeil
Nearest frequency peer: Beloeil (-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 « belong »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bayart
bayart
25,409 corpus weight
- belang
belang
25,407 corpus weight
- Beloeil
Beloeil
25,406 corpus weight
- belong
belong
25,405 corpus weight
- Benveniste
Benveniste
25,403 corpus weight
- bifteck
bifteck
25,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « belong » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belong |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɪ.ˈlɒŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « belong » en français
Rare enough to double-check
belong is uncommon French at frequency #74,596 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɪ.ˈlɒŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for belong, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is belong, spelled B-E-L-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1(Suivi de to) : appartenir à.
- 2(Suivi de with) : aller avec, appartenir à la même catégorie (que).
- 3Avoir sa place quelque part, être à sa place quelque part (suivi de here, nowhere ou somewhere).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It belongs to me.
He may have won the race, but I still think he belongs with the losers.
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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