blinis
\bli.ni\
The verdict
“blinis” is uncommon French (frequency #88,391 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,391
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de blini.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blinis · blinis · French
blinis · rank #88,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,391
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blettes
Nearest frequency peer: blettes (-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 « blinis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bischoff
bischoff
11,614 corpus weight
- Bleau
Bleau
11,612 corpus weight
- blettes
blettes
11,611 corpus weight
- blinis
blinis
11,610 corpus weight
- bobinage
bobinage
11,609 corpus weight
- bonapartisme
bonapartisme
11,607 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blinis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blinis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bli.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blinis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blinis is uncommon French at frequency #88,391 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bli.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de blini.".
Zero misspellings are on record for blinis in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is blinis, spelled B-L-I-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de blini.
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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