blafard
\bla.faʁ\
The verdict
“blafard” is uncommon French (frequency #79,989 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,989
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’une couleur ou d’un éclat pâle, terne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blafard · blafard · French
blafard · rank #79,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,989
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bixente
Nearest frequency peer: Bixente (-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 « blafard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bingen
Bingen
20,015 corpus weight
- biophysique
biophysique
20,014 corpus weight
- Bixente
Bixente
20,013 corpus weight
- blafard
blafard
20,012 corpus weight
- Blangy
Blangy
20,011 corpus weight
- bloquistes
bloquistes
20,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blafard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blafard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bla.faʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blafard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blafard is uncommon French at frequency #79,989 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bla.faʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est d’une couleur ou d’un éclat pâle, terne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for blafard in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is blafard, spelled B-L-A-F-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une couleur ou d’un éclat pâle, terne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blafard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et vainement ai-je feuilleté pendant trois jours et trois nuits, aux blafardes lueurs de la lampe, les livres hermétiques de Raymond Lulle.
Une lune trouble, à demi noyée dans la brume humide, s'élevant à peine de quelques degrés au- dessus du sombre horizon, jetait une lueur blafarde sur tout cet ensemble.
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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