blimps
/blɪmps/
"blimps" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blimps” is uncommon English (frequency #79,312 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,312
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of blimp
Corpus desk
Index EN-blimps · blimps · English
blimps · rank #79,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,312
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bisphenol
Nearest frequency peer: bisphenol (-2 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 “blimps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bioluminesc…
bioluminescent
20,693 corpus weight
- Birney
Birney
20,692 corpus weight
- bisphenol
bisphenol
20,691 corpus weight
- blimps
blimps
20,689 corpus weight
- bloodstock
bloodstock
20,686 corpus weight
- blued
blued
20,685 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blimps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blimps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /blɪmps/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blimps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blimps is uncommon English at frequency #79,312 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /blɪmps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of blimp".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for blimps, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is blimps, spelled B-L-I-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of blimp
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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