blanket
\ˈblæŋ.kɪt\
The verdict
“blanket” is uncommon French (frequency #99,923 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,923
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couverture, linge utilisé pour se tenir chaud ou pour dormir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blanket · blanket · French
blanket · rank #99,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,923
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blablater
Nearest frequency peer: blablater (-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 « blanket »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bilharziose
bilharziose
83 corpus weight
- biosécurité
biosécurité
82 corpus weight
- bitmap
bitmap
80 corpus weight
- blablater
blablater
79 corpus weight
- blanket
blanket
78 corpus weight
- Blase
Blase
77 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blanket » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blanket |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈblæŋ.kɪt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blanket » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blanket is uncommon French at frequency #99,923 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈblæŋ.kɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
blanket doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is blanket, spelled B-L-A-N-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1Couverture, linge utilisé pour se tenir chaud ou pour dormir.
- 2Une couche quelconque
- 3Un caoutchouc épais utilisé dans l’impression par offset pour transférer l’encre sur le papier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blanket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).