blatte
\blat\
The verdict
“blatte” is uncommon French (frequency #95,608 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,608
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel donné aux insectes de l'ordre des Blattaria qui, la nuit, dévorent dans les maisons les aliments, le cuir, les étoffes, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blatte · blatte · French
blatte · rank #95,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,608
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bland
Nearest frequency peer: bland (-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 « blatte »
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 « blatte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blatte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blatte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blatte is uncommon French at frequency #95,608 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom usuel donné aux insectes de l'ordre des Blattaria qui, la nuit, dévorent dans les maisons les aliments, le cuir, les étoffes, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blatte, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is blatte, spelled B-L-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel donné aux insectes de l'ordre des Blattaria qui, la nuit, dévorent dans les maisons les aliments, le cuir, les étoffes, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blatte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant la nuit, entendant un bruit insolite, je découvris dans un caisson un cafard ailé d’environ cinq centimètres de long […] Je ne me doutais guère que je ne pourrais jamais tenir en échec ces blattes redoutables qui allaient […] causer de sérieux dégâts à mes livres et cartes de voyage.
Les laboratoires ne savent plus quoi inventer, […]. Mais rien de tout cela n'est décisif, la vraie solution serait d'enseigner au cafard à être son propre prédateur, Pinchard y croit dur comme fer, il sélectionne l'agressivité, prépare la guerre civile, la blatte germanique contre le zyzzyva ou beattle yankee.
This word in other languages
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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