blâmer
\blɑ.me\
The verdict
“blâmer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,727. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,727
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Reprocher ; imputer la faute d'une situation déplorable à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blamer · blâmer · French
blâmer · rank #12,727 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,727
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH berry
Nearest frequency peer: berry (-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 « blâmer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- axel
axel
87,278 corpus weight
- Beauvais
Beauvais
87,276 corpus weight
- berry
berry
87,275 corpus weight
- blâmer
blâmer
87,274 corpus weight
- boxeur
boxeur
87,272 corpus weight
- brisée
brisée
87,271 corpus weight
What this shows « blâmer » 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 | blâmer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \blɑ.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « blâmer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around blâmer (IPA \blɑ.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,727 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for blâmer, with forms such as "bblâmer", "blamer", and "bllâmer". 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, "blaze", "Blaye", "Blier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is blâmer, spelled B-L-Â-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Reprocher ; imputer la faute d'une situation déplorable à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose.
- 2Donner un blâme
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blâmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand nous blâmons les Bas-Alpins de déserter leur pays, ayons la franchise de nous poser cette question : et moi-même, si j'avais vingt ans, y resterais-je ?
Vous seriez les premiers à nous blâmer de nous être croisés les bras puis d'avoir attendu des rapports de comités.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblâmer
- blamer
- bllâmer
- blmâer
- blâemr
- blâmerr
- blâmmer
- blâmre
- bâlmer
- lbâmer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blâmer - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).