Belzébuth
\bɛl.ze.byt\
The verdict
“Belzébuth” is uncommon French (frequency #86,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,462
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prince des démons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-belzebuth · Belzébuth · French
Belzébuth · rank #86,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,462
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bengal
Nearest frequency peer: bengal (+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 « Belzébuth »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bazille
Bazille
13,545 corpus weight
- bedon
bedon
13,542 corpus weight
- Belzébuth
Belzébuth
13,539 corpus weight
- bengal
bengal
13,538 corpus weight
- Bergoglio
Bergoglio
13,537 corpus weight
- bilboquet
bilboquet
13,535 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Belzébuth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Belzébuth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛl.ze.byt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Belzébuth » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Belzébuth is uncommon French at frequency #86,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɛl.ze.byt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Belzébuth, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Belzébuth, spelled B-E-L-Z-É-B-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1Prince des démons.
- 2Nom donné à un animal domestique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Belzébuth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des débuts dans le cambouis jusqu’aux yeux, à gonfler des mobs, et à distiller des carburants féroces, pour que le ridicule piston du monocylindre balance ses cinquante centimètres cubes d’une haleine de Belzébuth : éther, huile de ricin, Mercurochrome…
C’était une chatte noire, de poil ras, qui avait deux yeux d’un jaune éclatant et l’air d’un diable : M. le curé lui-même la nomma Belzébuth, nom d’un insigne démon ; c’est pourquoi Marie Coquelière l’appela aussitôt « la belle Zébute ».
This word in other languages
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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