bland
\blant\
The verdict
“bland” is uncommon French (frequency #95,607 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,607
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diététique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bland · bland · French
bland · rank #95,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,607
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bitumes
Nearest frequency peer: bitumes (-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 « bland »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bisset
bisset
4,396 corpus weight
- bitumes
bitumes
4,395 corpus weight
- bland
bland
4,394 corpus weight
- blatte
blatte
4,393 corpus weight
- blenheim
blenheim
4,392 corpus weight
- bli
bli
4,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bland » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bland |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \blant\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bland » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bland is uncommon French at frequency #95,607 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \blant\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bland, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bland, spelled B-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Diététique.
- 2Qui ne montre pas de signes d'inflammation.
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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