blâment
\blam\
The verdict
“blâment” is uncommon French (frequency #59,836 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,836
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe blâmer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blament · blâment · French
blâment · rank #59,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,836
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bitte
Nearest frequency peer: bitte (-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 « blâment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bidouiller
bidouiller
40,169 corpus weight
- Bilodeau
Bilodeau
40,168 corpus weight
- bitte
bitte
40,166 corpus weight
- blâment
blâment
40,165 corpus weight
- bode
bode
40,164 corpus weight
- Bogdanoff
Bogdanoff
40,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blâment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blâment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \blam\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blâment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blâment is uncommon French at frequency #59,836 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \blam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blâment, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 blâment, spelled B-L-Â-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe blâmer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe blâmer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blâment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a point de demi-preuve ; plusieurs Auteurs blâment cette façon de s’exprimer.
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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