blare
/blɛə/
"blare" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blare” is an uncommon English word, ranked #59,905 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #59,905
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blare |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /blɛə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blare” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for blare is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /blɛə/. Corpus data places it at rank #59,905 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for blare in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Du… The correct English form is blare, spelled B-L-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
- 2To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
- 3To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.
- 4To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates German Low German blaren, blarren Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren) Saterland Frisian blärje West Frisian blearje
This word in other languages
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 “blare”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-L-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /blɛə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.