Blaine
\blɛn\
The verdict
“Blaine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,142. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,142
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surface spécifique d'une poudre minérale, mesurée au perméabilimètre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blaine · Blaine · French
Blaine · rank #40,142 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,142
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blain
Nearest frequency peer: blain (-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 « Blaine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- bordereau
bordereau
59,856 corpus weight
What this shows « Blaine » 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 | Blaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Blaine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Blaine (IPA \blɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,142 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Surface spécifique d'une poudre minérale, mesurée au perméabilimètre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Blaine, with forms such as "baline", "bblaine", and "blaien". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blanc", "Blake", "blair", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Blaine, spelled B-L-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Surface spécifique d'une poudre minérale, mesurée au perméabilimètre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Blaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ciments de cette classe se distinguent par une finesse de mouture qui, en moyenne, est de l'ordre de 3500 Blaine.
La figure B présente ces variations en ce qui concerne le Blaine. On voit que. dans certains cas. les valeurs de Blaine font plus que doubler.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baline
- bblaine
- blaien
- blainne
- blanie
- bliane
- bllaine
- lbaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Blaine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).