Blende
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,336
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Blende is aGermannoun. It means: ein Bauteil bei optischen Instrumenten und Apparaten Pronounced [ˈblɛndə]. Often confused with blind and blöde.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blende |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈblɛndə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Blende is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈblɛndə]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,336 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Blende, with forms such as "bblende", "belnde", and "bledne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blind", "blöde", "blond", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Blende, spelled B-L-E-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein Bauteil bei optischen Instrumenten und Apparaten
- 2eine Leiste, die etwas verdeckt oder schützt
- 3ein Sammelbegriff für glänzendes Mineral
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bblende,belnde,bledne,blendde,blened,blennde,bllende,blnede,lbende
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Blende
Misspelling Variants of "Blende"
Frequency rank: #26,336 in German
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Nearby German words
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