blink
\blɪŋk\
The verdict
“blink” is uncommon French (frequency #50,091 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,091
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de blinken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blink · blink · French
blink · rank #50,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,091
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blazers
Nearest frequency peer: blazers (-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 « blink »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bernay
Bernay
49,913 corpus weight
- Biocoop
Biocoop
49,912 corpus weight
- blazers
blazers
49,911 corpus weight
- blink
blink
49,910 corpus weight
- blogging
blogging
49,909 corpus weight
- Bolchoï
Bolchoï
49,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blink » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blink |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \blɪŋk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blink » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blink is uncommon French at frequency #50,091 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \blɪŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de blinken.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for blink, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is blink, spelled B-L-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de blinken.
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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