blazer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,277
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
blazer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Veste en flanelle à rayures aux couleurs d’un collège ou d’un club sportif anglais, souvent avec un écusson. Pronounced \bla.zɛʁ\. Often confused with Blier and braver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blazer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bla.zɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for blazer is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bla.zɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,277 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for blazer, with forms such as "balzer", "bblazer", and "blaezr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Blier", "braver", "buzzer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is blazer, spelled B-L-A-Z-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Veste en flanelle à rayures aux couleurs d’un collège ou d’un club sportif anglais, souvent avec un écusson.
- 2Veste de sport d’inspiration anglaise, droite ou croisée, en flanelle grise ou bleue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: balzer,bblazer,blaezr,blazerr,blazre,blazzer,bllazer,blzaer,lbazer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "blazer"
Frequency rank: #36,277 in French
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