blanket
blan·ket/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/noun, adjective, verb
blanket is spelled B-L-A-N-K-E-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables (blan·ket). It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blanket means “A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blanket is blankets.
How many letters and syllables are in blanket?
| Letters | 7: B-L-A-N-K-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: blan·ket |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is blanket?
Blanket appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce blanket?
- /ˈblæŋ.kɪt/
- [ˈblæŋ.kʰɪt]
- /ˈbleɪ̯ŋ.kɪt/
Blanket has 2 syllables, split blan·ket in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-blanket.ogg, En-us-blanket.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of blanket
- blankets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- blanketing participle, present
- blanketting participle, present
- blanketed participle, past
- blanketted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does blanket mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
- 2
A covering layer of anything.
The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
- 3
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
- 4
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
adjective
- 1
General; covering or encompassing everything.
verb
- 1
To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
- 2
To traverse or complete thoroughly.
The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
- 3
To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- 4
To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- 5
To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
- 6
Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Blanket in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | couverture , général , recouvrir, couvrir |
| German | Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke , allgemein , Schicht, Lage |
| Portuguese | cobertor, manta, coberta |
| Spanish | manta, cobija, colcha, frazada, frisa , capa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does blanket come from?
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).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).