blackbird
\ˈblæk.ˌbɜːd\
The verdict
“blackbird” is uncommon French (frequency #79,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,095
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Merle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blackbird · blackbird · French
blackbird · rank #79,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,095
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biscayne
Nearest frequency peer: biscayne (-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 « blackbird »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biko
biko
20,909 corpus weight
- biodiesel
biodiesel
20,908 corpus weight
- biscayne
biscayne
20,907 corpus weight
- blackbird
blackbird
20,906 corpus weight
- blessed
blessed
20,905 corpus weight
- bobino
bobino
20,904 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blackbird » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blackbird |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈblæk.ˌbɜːd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blackbird » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blackbird is uncommon French at frequency #79,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈblæk.ˌbɜːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Merle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blackbird, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is blackbird, spelled B-L-A-C-K-B-I-R-D.
Definition
- 1Merle.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).