blême
\blɛm\
The verdict
“blême” is uncommon French (frequency #52,521 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,521
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très pâle, plus que pâle. — Note d’usage : S’utilise surtout en parlant du visage, du teint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bleme · blême · French
blême · rank #52,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,521
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blur
Nearest frequency peer: blur (-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 « blême »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bisexualité
bisexualité
47,484 corpus weight
- bless
bless
47,483 corpus weight
- blesses
blesses
47,482 corpus weight
- blur
blur
47,481 corpus weight
- blême
blême
47,480 corpus weight
- boas
boas
47,479 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blême » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blême |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \blɛm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blême » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blême is uncommon French at frequency #52,521 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \blɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for blême, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is blême, spelled B-L-Ê-M-E.
Definition
- 1Très pâle, plus que pâle. — Note d’usage : S’utilise surtout en parlant du visage, du teint.
- 2Qualifie un objet d’une couleur très pâle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blême appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cadavre, visage blême, ricanait là, sous la lune.
Adieu, vous voyez trop en mon visage blême Que m’arracher à vous c’est m’ôter à moi-même.
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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