blades
\blad\
The verdict
“blades” is uncommon French (frequency #73,767 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,767
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de blade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blades · blades · French
blades · rank #73,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,767
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blache
Nearest frequency peer: blache (-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 « blades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bijouteries
bijouteries
26,237 corpus weight
- blache
blache
26,235 corpus weight
- blades
blades
26,234 corpus weight
- blasphémer
blasphémer
26,233 corpus weight
- blavet
blavet
26,232 corpus weight
- bluegrass
bluegrass
26,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blad\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blades is uncommon French at frequency #73,767 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de blade.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blades, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 blades, spelled B-L-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de blade.
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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