Blake
\blek\
The verdict
“Blake” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,457. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,457
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blake · Blake · French
Blake · rank #10,457 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,457
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bof
Nearest frequency peer: bof (+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 « Blake »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- automobilis…
automobilistes
89,547 corpus weight
- barreau
barreau
89,546 corpus weight
- Blake
Blake
89,544 corpus weight
- bof
bof
89,543 corpus weight
- book
book
89,542 corpus weight
- botanique
botanique
89,541 corpus weight
What this shows « Blake » 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 | Blake |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \blek\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Blake »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Blake (IPA \blek\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,457 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Blake, with forms such as "balke", "bblake", and "blaek". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blé", "blue", "blas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Blake, spelled B-L-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
- 2Nom de famille d’origine irlandaise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- balke
- bblake
- blaek
- blakke
- blkae
- bllake
- lbake
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Blake - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Blake", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).