Blois
/blwɑː/
"blois" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Blois” is uncommon English (frequency #73,913 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,913
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and commune, the prefecture of Loir-et-Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blois · Blois · English
Blois · rank #73,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,913
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blitzing
Nearest frequency peer: blitzing (-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 “Blois”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bleeping
bleeping
26,090 corpus weight
- blitzing
blitzing
26,089 corpus weight
- Blois
Blois
26,088 corpus weight
- Bluey
Bluey
26,087 corpus weight
- Boda
Boda
26,086 corpus weight
- bodacious
bodacious
26,085 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Blois” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blois |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /blwɑː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Blois” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Blois is uncommon English at frequency #73,913 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /blwɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city and commune, the prefecture of Loir-et-Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Blois, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Blois. The correct English form is Blois, spelled B-L-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1A city and commune, the prefecture of Loir-et-Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Blois.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).