blan
\blã\
The verdict
“blan” is uncommon French (frequency #76,366 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,366
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blanc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blan · blan · French
blan · rank #76,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,366
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bivalves
Nearest frequency peer: bivalves (-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 « blan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- billaud
billaud
23,638 corpus weight
- biochimiste
biochimiste
23,637 corpus weight
- bivalves
bivalves
23,636 corpus weight
- blan
blan
23,635 corpus weight
- blend
blend
23,633 corpus weight
- BMP
BMP
23,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \blã\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blan is uncommon French at frequency #76,366 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \blã\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Blanc.".
Zero misspellings are on record for blan in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is blan, spelled B-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Blanc.
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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