blacks
\blak\
The verdict
“blacks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,818
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de black.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blacks · blacks · French
blacks · rank #16,818 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,818
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bit
Nearest frequency peer: bit (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « blacks »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- barons
barons
83,186 corpus weight
- bit
bit
83,184 corpus weight
- blacks
blacks
83,183 corpus weight
- blondes
blondes
83,182 corpus weight
- boulots
boulots
83,181 corpus weight
- cabines
cabines
83,180 corpus weight
What this shows « blacks » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blacks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « blacks »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around blacks (IPA \blak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,818 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de black.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for blacks, with forms such as "balcks", "bblacks", and "blaccks". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "blas", "blocs", "Blake", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is blacks, spelled B-L-A-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de black.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- balcks
- bblacks
- blaccks
- blackks
- blackss
- blacsk
- blakcs
- blcaks
- bllacks
- lbacks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blacks - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).