blag
/blæɡ/
"blag" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blag” is uncommon English (frequency #87,086 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,086
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blag · blag · English
blag · rank #87,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,086
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blasphemer
Nearest frequency peer: blasphemer (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “blag”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biodegradat…
biodegradation
12,925 corpus weight
- bipod
bipod
12,924 corpus weight
- blag
blag
12,915 corpus weight
- blasphemer
blasphemer
12,914 corpus weight
- Boothroyd
Boothroyd
12,911 corpus weight
- braai
braai
12,906 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blag” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blag |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /blæɡ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blag” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blag is uncommon English at frequency #87,086 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /blæɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blag, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun. The correct English form is blag, spelled B-L-A-G.
Definition
- 1An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'What's he do, Micky?' / 'Armed blags is what I hear – s'posed to be one or two nice little tucks down to him that he didn't go for. He keeps well active. Someone told me he's putting one together now.[…]'
Through Lenny I had met a character whom I shall call Billy. He was part of a blag team famous for a series of large-scale wage snatches.
Etymology
The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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