blinder

/\blɛ̃.de\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#57,113

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

blinder is aFrenchverb. It means: Garantir le dessus d’un ouvrage de fortification au moyen d’un plafond ou d’une voûte de charpente, recouverte de terre, et résistant à la chute des projectiles ; et, d’une manière plus générale, p... Pronounced \blɛ̃.de\.

Key facts for blinder
PropertyValue
Headwordblinder
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\blɛ̃.de\
Letters7
Frequency rank#57,113
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of blinder in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for blinder is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blɛ̃.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #57,113 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for blinder in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 blinder, spelled B-L-I-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Garantir le dessus d’un ouvrage de fortification au moyen d’un plafond ou d’une voûte de charpente, recouverte de terre, et résistant à la chute des projectiles ; et, d’une manière plus générale, protéger contre les projectiles au moyen de blindes, de fascines.
  2. 2
    Couvrir de vieux câbles ou d’autres matières le pont supérieur d’un vaisseau, pour le protéger contre les obus et les bombes ou revêtir le vaisseau lui-même d’une armure en plaques de tôle d’acier.
  3. 3
    Protéger contre toute agression et toute destruction.
  4. 4
    Isoler un composant ou module électrique / électronique à l'aide d'une enveloppe conductrice reliée à la masse et ce afin de se protéger des parasites extérieurs ou bien au contraire d'éviter de perturber soi-même d'autres systèmes.
  5. 5
    Endurcir, parer à de futurs désagréments.
  6. 6
    Être ivre.
  7. 7
    Être couvert, avoir beaucoup de quelque chose.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #57,113 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "blinder"?
"blinder" is spelled B-L-I-N-D-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \blɛ̃.de\.
What does "blinder" mean?
As a verb, "blinder" means: Garantir le dessus d’un ouvrage de fortification au moyen d’un plafond ou d’une voûte de charpente, recouverte de terre, et résistant à la chute des projectiles ; et, d’une manière plus générale, p...
How do you pronounce "blinder"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "blinder" is \blɛ̃.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "blinder" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.