blain
\blɛ̃\
The verdict
“blain” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,141. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,141
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Loire-Inférieure) Bateau plat très allongé, avec voile à livarde, qui naviguait sur les tourbières et qui pouvait porter jusqu’à 15 000 mottes de tourbe. Les plus grands avaient deux mâts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blain · blain · French
blain · rank #40,141 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,141
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Blaine
Nearest frequency peer: Blaine (+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 « blain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Battista
Battista
59,864 corpus weight
- belli
belli
59,863 corpus weight
- blain
blain
59,860 corpus weight
- Blaine
Blaine
59,859 corpus weight
- bocaux
bocaux
59,858 corpus weight
- bombardent
bombardent
59,857 corpus weight
What this shows « blain » 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 | blain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « blain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around blain (IPA \blɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,141 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Loire-Inférieure) Bateau plat très allongé, avec voile à livarde, qui naviguait sur les tourbières et qui pouvait porter jusqu’à 15 000 mottes de tourbe. Les plus grands avaient deux mâts.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for blain, with forms such as "balin", "bblain", and "blainn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brin", "bran", "blas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is blain, spelled B-L-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1(Loire-Inférieure) Bateau plat très allongé, avec voile à livarde, qui naviguait sur les tourbières et qui pouvait porter jusqu’à 15 000 mottes de tourbe. Les plus grands avaient deux mâts.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- balin
- bblain
- blainn
- blani
- bllain
- lbain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blain - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).