blackface
\blak.fɛs\
The verdict
“blackface” is uncommon French (frequency #75,448 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,448
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de mouton ayant la particularité d’avoir une tête noire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blackface · blackface · French
blackface · rank #75,448 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,448
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bizot
Nearest frequency peer: Bizot (-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 « blackface »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bissextile
bissextile
24,556 corpus weight
- Bithynie
Bithynie
24,555 corpus weight
- Bizot
Bizot
24,554 corpus weight
- blackface
blackface
24,553 corpus weight
- blanchisseu…
blanchisseuse
24,552 corpus weight
- blottie
blottie
24,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blackface » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blackface |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blak.fɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blackface » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blackface is uncommon French at frequency #75,448 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blak.fɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for blackface in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is blackface, spelled B-L-A-C-K-F-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Race de mouton ayant la particularité d’avoir une tête noire.
- 2Fait de se maquiller en noir pour ressembler à une personne noire, pour le théâtre ou le cinéma, ou pour des moqueries racistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blackface appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Blackface est parfait pour ce genre de travail car il est habitué à grimper sur des collines en Ecosse et à se balader dans les Landes.
Pour cela, John est resté fidèle à la race locale, la blackface.
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.
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