blablater

\bla.bla.te\

/\bla.bla.te\/ verb

The verdict

“blablater” is uncommon French (frequency #99,922 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,922
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parler à tort et à travers, parler pour ne rien dire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-blablater · blablater · French

blablater · rank #99,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,922
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bitmap

Nearest frequency peer: bitmap (-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 « blablater »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blablater » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for blablater
PropertyValue
Headwordblablater
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bla.bla.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#99,922
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « blablater » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).blablatertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « bitmap » (#99,921), « blanket » (#99,923), « Blase » (#99,924). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « blablater » est au #99,922. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

blablater is uncommon French at frequency #99,922 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bla.bla.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Parler à tort et à travers, parler pour ne rien dire.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blablater, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is blablater, spelled B-L-A-B-L-A-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Parler à tort et à travers, parler pour ne rien dire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how blablater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est facile de blablater, shérif, mais ce sont les coyotes les plus coriaces du pays!
  2. — C'est ça le problème des méchants, commenta Christian à l'attention de Violette, […]. Ils blablatent, ils blablatent, alors qu'ils auraient pu descendre les gentils depuis longtemps…

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "blablater"?
"blablater" is spelled B-L-A-B-L-A-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bla.bla.te\.
What does "blablater" mean?
As a verb, "blablater" means: Parler à tort et à travers, parler pour ne rien dire.
How do you pronounce "blablater"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "blablater" is \bla.bla.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "blablater" come from?
"blablater" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blablater", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list