Bellarke
Bellarke is the ship name for Bellamy and Clarke from The 100. It is a portmanteau: built by joining a piece of one name to a piece of the other.
Engine version 1.0 · Breakdown computed from the live checker · Research Desk
Structure
bella from Bellamy, plus larke from Clarke.
Bellamy coverage 71%
Clarke coverage 83%
At the join, ar, a vowel meets a consonant, which is the seam that most often survives being read aloud by someone seeing it for the first time.
Why this name is shaped the way it is
Bell plus arke. Both names keep a recognisable chunk, which is why this one reads more easily than Clexa from the same show.
What our own engine would have built
Handed Bellamy and Clarke with no knowledge of the fandom, the blender proposes Clarlamy, Bellarke, Clallamy, Clarllamy, Clalamy, Clarkllamy. Bellarke is among them, which is unusual: most established ship names are not what a structural ranking would pick.
If you want to run the same check on a name of your own, the draft checker does exactly what produced the breakdown above, and the ship name generator builds candidates from two names you supply.
More from The 100
Other portmanteaus
Questions
What does Bellarke mean?
Bellarke is the ship name for Bellamy and Clarke from The 100. A ship name is a nickname for a pairing, and shipping means wanting two characters to be together.
Who is Bellarke?
Bellarke is not a person. It refers to Bellamy and Clarke as a pairing, which is how fandom communities talk about two characters together in one word.
How was Bellarke formed?
By joining bella from Bellamy to larke from Clarke. That keeps 71% of the first name and 83% of the second.