blinde
\blɛ̃d\
The verdict
“blinde” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,170
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de bois, tronc d’arbre, pour soutenir des fascines, couvrir une tranchée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blinde · blinde · French
blinde · rank #38,170 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,170
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Biot
Nearest frequency peer: Biot (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « blinde »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- battons
battons
61,833 corpus weight
- Biot
Biot
61,832 corpus weight
- blinde
blinde
61,831 corpus weight
- bloqueur
bloqueur
61,830 corpus weight
- boueux
boueux
61,829 corpus weight
- bougera
bougera
61,828 corpus weight
What this shows « blinde » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blinde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɛ̃d\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « blinde »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around blinde (IPA \blɛ̃d\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,170 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for blinde, with forms such as "bblinde", "bilnde", and "blidne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "blond", "bride", "bling", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is blinde, spelled B-L-I-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce de bois, tronc d’arbre, pour soutenir des fascines, couvrir une tranchée.
- 2Tronçon de vieux câble, de vieux cordage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blinde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On place de nouvelles blindes latérales lorsque la fouille est à lᵐ,50 des dernières posées. À cet effet, on creuse des trous pour recevoir leurs pieds ; on place les blindes de manière que leurs montants soient verticaux, en les emboîtant dans leur partie supérieure avec la blinde horizontale, et l’on enlève les faux montants.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblinde
- bilnde
- blidne
- blindde
- blined
- blinnde
- bllinde
- blnide
- lbinde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blinde - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blinde", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).