blister
\bli.stɛʁ\
The verdict
“blister” is uncommon French (frequency #81,810 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,810
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emballage composé d'une cartonnette ou d'une feuille de plastique, souvent imprimé, associé à une coque plastique transparente. Cet emballage inviolable permet la présentation de produits pour la v...
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Index FR-blister · blister · French
blister · rank #81,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,810
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bique
Nearest frequency peer: bique (-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 « blister »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biaiser
biaiser
18,194 corpus weight
- bibelot
bibelot
18,193 corpus weight
- bique
bique
18,192 corpus weight
- blister
blister
18,191 corpus weight
- Blume
Blume
18,189 corpus weight
- Blumenthal
Blumenthal
18,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blister » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blister |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bli.stɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blister » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blister is uncommon French at frequency #81,810 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bli.stɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for blister, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is blister, spelled B-L-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Emballage composé d'une cartonnette ou d'une feuille de plastique, souvent imprimé, associé à une coque plastique transparente. Cet emballage inviolable permet la présentation de produits pour la vente unitaire. Il est réservé aux articles de petites et moyennes dimensions vendus en libre-service et supermarchés.
- 2Alliage impur de cuivre issu d'un convertisseur. Riche en gaz, il se solidifie en un métal poreux, d'où son nom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les capsules sont ensuites séchées à l’étuve pour durcir légèrement, puis elles sont conditionnées sous blister ou pilulier.
Il faudra s’appliquer à surveiller et éliminer les marchés noirs mafieux qui vendent toute pilule conditionnée dans un blister suisse, comme le remède au sida.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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