backlash
\bak.laʃ\
The verdict
“backlash” is uncommon French (frequency #72,939 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,939
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réaction, objection, ressac conservateur voire réactionnaire à l’encontre des avancées et des victoires des mouvements sociaux, en particulier des droits des femmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-backlash · backlash · French
backlash · rank #72,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,939
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babylonienne
Nearest frequency peer: babylonienne (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « backlash »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- averties
averties
27,065 corpus weight
- Babylonie
Babylonie
27,064 corpus weight
- babylonienne
babylonienne
27,063 corpus weight
- backlash
backlash
27,062 corpus weight
- bagatelles
bagatelles
27,061 corpus weight
- balancées
balancées
27,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « backlash » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | backlash |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bak.laʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « backlash » en français
Rare enough to double-check
backlash is uncommon French at frequency #72,939 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bak.laʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réaction, objection, ressac conservateur voire réactionnaire à l’encontre des avancées et des victoires des mouvements sociaux, en particulier des droits des femmes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for backlash, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is backlash, spelled B-A-C-K-L-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Réaction, objection, ressac conservateur voire réactionnaire à l’encontre des avancées et des victoires des mouvements sociaux, en particulier des droits des femmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how backlash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous assisterions à un véritable “backlash”, pour reprendre le titre du célèbre best-seller féministe de Susan Faludi, si la parole des femmes violées devenait plus suspecte encore qu’avant l’“affaire”.
Pas de doute, la croisade des musulmans de Bradford contre l’œuvre impie, la sentence de mort lancée par l’imam Khomeiny ont provoqué un dangereux backlash raciste de la part des petits Blancs du Yorkshire.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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