Blackwood
The verdict
“Blackwood” is uncommon French (frequency #62,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,095
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blackwood · Blackwood · French
Blackwood · rank #62,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,095
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blasée
Nearest frequency peer: blasée (+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 « Blackwood »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Biolay
Biolay
37,909 corpus weight
- biscuiterie
biscuiterie
37,908 corpus weight
- Blackwood
Blackwood
37,906 corpus weight
- blasée
blasée
37,905 corpus weight
- blondinette
blondinette
37,904 corpus weight
- boiron
boiron
37,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Blackwood » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blackwood |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Blackwood » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Blackwood is uncommon French at frequency #62,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Blackwood, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Blackwood, spelled B-L-A-C-K-W-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Blackwood appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Algernon Blackwood.
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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