blanchon
\blɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“blanchon” is uncommon French (frequency #94,538 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,538
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit du phoque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blanchon · blanchon · French
blanchon · rank #94,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,538
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blanchissement
Nearest frequency peer: blanchissement (-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 « blanchon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bisque
bisque
5,467 corpus weight
- blaguais
blaguais
5,466 corpus weight
- blanchissant
blanchissant
5,465 corpus weight
- blanchissem…
blanchissement
5,464 corpus weight
- blanchon
blanchon
5,463 corpus weight
- blasphémate…
blasphémateur
5,462 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blanchon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blanchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blanchon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blanchon is uncommon French at frequency #94,538 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for blanchon in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is blanchon, spelled B-L-A-N-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit du phoque.
- 2Synonyme de lièvre variable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blanchon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur l’archipel des Sept-Îles en Bretagne, 36 naissances de blanchons ont été observées en 2013, contre 23 en 2012, il s’agit d’un nouveau record pour la Réserve naturelle, qui s’affirme comme le site majeur de reproduction de l’espèce en France. La première mention de ce phoque sur l’archipel remonte à 1977, depuis 1988, il a été dénombré 120 naissances,…
Chez le phoque du Groenland, le mâle adulte porte un motif noir et blanc très net en forme de harpe, d’où le nom de phoque harpé qui lui est parfois donné au Canada, …. Les petits sont appelés blanchons, parce qu’ils ont le pelage blanc de la naissance à deux semaines.
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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