blablater
\bla.bla.te\
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
- bilharziose
bilharziose
83 corpus weight
- biosécurité
biosécurité
82 corpus weight
- bitmap
bitmap
80 corpus weight
- blablater
blablater
79 corpus weight
- blanket
blanket
78 corpus weight
- Blase
Blase
77 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blablater » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blablater |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bla.bla.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blablater » en français
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
- 1Parler à tort et à travers, parler pour ne rien dire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blablater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est facile de blablater, shérif, mais ce sont les coyotes les plus coriaces du pays!
— 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
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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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