blijken
\blɛj.kə:\
The verdict
“blijken” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se révéler, apparaître clairement, se trouver, s’avérer, être clair.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blijken · blijken · French
blijken · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blijken |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \blɛj.kə:\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blijken » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blijken is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \blɛj.kə:\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se révéler, apparaître clairement, se trouver, s’avérer, être clair.".
blijken doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 blijken, spelled B-L-I-J-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Se révéler, apparaître clairement, se trouver, s’avérer, être clair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blijken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
het blijkt : il ressort, il apparaît, il résulte
uit het rapport blijkt dat : il résulte du rapport que
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.