blase
"blase" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blase” is uncommon English (frequency #78,414 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,414
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of blasé.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blase · blase · English
blase · rank #78,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,414
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blaspheme
Nearest frequency peer: blaspheme (+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 “blase”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bickley
Bickley
21,593 corpus weight
- blase
blase
21,587 corpus weight
- blaspheme
blaspheme
21,586 corpus weight
- blest
blest
21,585 corpus weight
- blonds
blonds
21,584 corpus weight
- bluegill
bluegill
21,582 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blase” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blase |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blase” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blase is uncommon English at frequency #78,414 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of blasé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for blase in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is blase, spelled B-L-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of blasé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In mid-February a colleague mentioned that for the first time in his life he was more concerned than his mother, who had been relatively blase about the risks of Covid-19.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).