blanket
/ˈblæŋkɪt/
"blanket" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blanket” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #6,336 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,336
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
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 | blanket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblæŋkɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blanket” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for blanket is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈblæŋkɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,336 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for blanket, with forms such as "balnket", "bblanket", and "blaknet". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "bracket", "blankly", "blankets", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blan… The correct English form is blanket, spelled B-L-A-N-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- 2A covering layer of anything.
- 3A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
- 4A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”). Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: balnket,bblanket,blaknet,blanekt,blankett,blankket,blankte,blannket,bllanket,blnaket,lbanket
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blanket - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “blanket”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-L-A-N-K-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈblæŋkɪt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bracket” - see the side-by-side comparison. blanket vs bracket
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.