blick
"blick" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blick” is uncommon English (frequency #72,136 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,136
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To shine, gleam.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blick · blick · English
blick · rank #72,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,136
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blech
Nearest frequency peer: blech (-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 “blick”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bernese
Bernese
27,872 corpus weight
- biomolecular
biomolecular
27,867 corpus weight
- blech
blech
27,866 corpus weight
- blick
blick
27,865 corpus weight
- Blumberg
Blumberg
27,863 corpus weight
- bokeh
bokeh
27,859 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blick” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blick” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blick is uncommon English at frequency #72,136 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
blick doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps onomatopoeic; perhaps an error for, or a nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhaps a continuation of Middle English bliken (compare blicker), which may have survived in dialect despite not being attested in print for 500 years. The correct English form is blick, spelled B-L-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1To shine, gleam.
- 2To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Shirley Steynes Bluey took a deep breath as he entered the main street; nothing new under the sun-lamp as white pinks blicked across the street in a line of heat-glazed asterisks
The lancing sunlight blicked sharps of light from the scattering of sand on the marble of the plinth.
Etymology
Perhaps onomatopoeic; perhaps an error for, or a nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhaps a continuation of Middle English bliken (compare blicker), which may have survived in dialect despite not being attested in print for 500 years.
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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