blanc de plomb
The verdict
“blanc de plomb” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sous-carbonate de plomb (2PbCO₃·Pb(OH)₂) (ou carbonate de plomb basique), appelé aussi céruse, qui produit une couleur blanche dont les peintres font usage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blanc de plomb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɑ̃ d(ə) plɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blanc de plomb” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for blanc de plomb is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blɑ̃ d(ə) plɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sous-carbonate de plomb (2PbCO₃·Pb(OH)₂) (ou carbonate de plomb basique), appelé aussi céruse, qui produit une couleur blanche dont les peintres font usage.".
No misspelling variants are generated for blanc de plomb in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is blanc de plomb, spelled B-L-A-N-C- -D-E- -P-L-O-M-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sous-carbonate de plomb (2PbCO₃·Pb(OH)₂) (ou carbonate de plomb basique), appelé aussi céruse, qui produit une couleur blanche dont les peintres font usage.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-L-A-N-C- -D-E- -P-L-O-M-B — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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