blattes
\blat\
The verdict
“blattes” is uncommon French (frequency #77,295 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,295
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de blatte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blattes · blattes · French
blattes · rank #77,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,295
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blanchies
Nearest frequency peer: blanchies (-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 « blattes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biomédecine
biomédecine
22,709 corpus weight
- bion
bion
22,708 corpus weight
- blanchies
blanchies
22,707 corpus weight
- blattes
blattes
22,706 corpus weight
- blessait
blessait
22,705 corpus weight
- bluffée
bluffée
22,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blattes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blattes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blattes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blattes is uncommon French at frequency #77,295 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de blatte.".
blattes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is blattes, spelled B-L-A-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de blatte.
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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