belote
\bə.lɔt\
The verdict
“belote” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,024
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paire formée du roi et de la dame d’atout d’un jeu de trente-deux cartes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belote · belote · French
belote · rank #46,024 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,024
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH belette
Nearest frequency peer: belette (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « belote »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- battles
battles
53,980 corpus weight
- belette
belette
53,978 corpus weight
- belote
belote
53,977 corpus weight
- besace
besace
53,976 corpus weight
- bie
bie
53,975 corpus weight
- birmans
birmans
53,974 corpus weight
What this shows « belote » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.lɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « belote »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around belote (IPA \bə.lɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,024 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for belote, with forms such as "bbelote", "bellote", and "beloet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "bete", "belt", "blot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is belote, spelled B-E-L-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Paire formée du roi et de la dame d’atout d’un jeu de trente-deux cartes.
- 2Première carte jouée de la paire ci-dessus.
- 3Jeu de cartes qui se pratique autour de la paire ci-dessus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La belote vaut 20 points et se compose des « roi et dame » d’atout.
On entendait le bruit des cartes jetées sèchement sur la nappe en plastique et les annonces qui égrainaient le temps : « Tierce ! » « Belote ! » « Et dix de der ».
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelote
- bellote
- beloet
- belotte
- beltoe
- beolte
- bleote
- eblote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belote - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).