blizzard
\bli.zaʁ\
The verdict
“blizzard” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,760
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vent violent et glacial, chargé de neige, qui souffle dans les régions du Grand Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blizzard · blizzard · French
blizzard · rank #19,760 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,760
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blackberry
Nearest frequency peer: blackberry (-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 « blizzard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bing
bing
80,244 corpus weight
- bises
bises
80,243 corpus weight
- blackberry
blackberry
80,242 corpus weight
- blizzard
blizzard
80,241 corpus weight
- Bobigny
Bobigny
80,240 corpus weight
- books
books
80,239 corpus weight
What this shows « blizzard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blizzard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bli.zaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « blizzard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around blizzard (IPA \bli.zaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,760 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vent violent et glacial, chargé de neige, qui souffle dans les régions du Grand Nord.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for blizzard, with forms such as "bblizzard", "bilzzard", and "blizard". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is blizzard, spelled B-L-I-Z-Z-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Vent violent et glacial, chargé de neige, qui souffle dans les régions du Grand Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blizzard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Luttant contre le vent du blizzard, je m'avançais avec difficulté, m'enfonçant dans la neige à chaque pas.
Le très expérimenté explorateur revint sans avoir atteint son but ; il nous raconta qu’un terrible « blizzard » soufflait dans le Sud et que les glaces étaient dangereusement en mouvement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblizzard
- bilzzard
- blizard
- blizazrd
- blizzadr
- blizzardd
- blizzarrd
- blizzrad
- bllizzard
- blzizard
- lbizzard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blizzard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).