blenheim
The verdict
“blenheim” is uncommon French (frequency #95,609 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,609
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie la robe d'un animal domestique (chien ou autre), caractérisée par une tache rousse au milieu du blanc du crâne ou une robe blanche et rousse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blenheim · blenheim · French
blenheim · rank #95,609 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,609
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blatte
Nearest frequency peer: blatte (-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 « blenheim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Boland
Boland
4,389 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blenheim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blenheim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blenheim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blenheim is uncommon French at frequency #95,609 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie la robe d'un animal domestique (chien ou autre), caractérisée par une tache rousse au milieu du blanc du crâne ou une robe blanche et rousse.".
blenheim has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is blenheim, spelled B-L-E-N-H-E-I-M.
Definition
- 1Qualifie la robe d'un animal domestique (chien ou autre), caractérisée par une tache rousse au milieu du blanc du crâne ou une robe blanche et rousse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blenheim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle tenait sous son bras gauche un de ces petits épagneuls à soies blanches et orangées, devenus la souche depuis d'une race si précieuse et si connue sous le nom de chien de Blenheim.
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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