blog

\blɔɡ\

/\blɔɡ\/ noun

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The verdict

“blog” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,260. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,260
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Site Web, ou partie de site Web, personnel dans lequel l’auteur note, au fur et à mesure de sa réflexion sur un sujet qui lui importe, des avis, impressions, etc., pour les diffuser et susciter des...

Corpus desk

Index FR-blog · blog · French

blog · rank #2,260 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,260
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Belge

Nearest frequency peer: Belge (-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 « blog »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « blog » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

blog vs bon
50% similar
blog vs bob
50% similar
blog vs box
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for blog
PropertyValue
Headwordblog
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\blɔɡ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,260
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « blog »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.blogse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Belge » (#2,259), « Canadien » (#2,261), « centaines » (#2,262). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « blog » est au #2,260. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around blog (IPA \blɔɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,260 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Site Web, ou partie de site Web, personnel dans lequel l’auteur note, au fur et à mesure de sa réflexion sur un sujet qui lui importe, des avis, impressions, etc., pour les diffuser et susciter des...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for blog, with forms such as "bblog", "blgo", and "bllog". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bon", "bob", "box", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is blog, spelled B-L-O-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Site Web, ou partie de site Web, personnel dans lequel l’auteur note, au fur et à mesure de sa réflexion sur un sujet qui lui importe, des avis, impressions, etc., pour les diffuser et susciter des réactions, commentaires et discussions, et dont les articles ou contribution individuels sont connus comme billets.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how blog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Avec l’augmentation du nombre de blogs, le phénomène du pollupostage (spam), à l’origine associé seulement au courrier électronique, pénètre aujourd’hui la blogosphère.
  2. De Rennes à Brest en passant par Ploumanac’h (22) et Roscoff (29), la jeune femme a découvert une côte « sauvage et romantique », comme elle la décrit sur son blog.

Synonyms

carnet Webcybercarnetjouebjourel

This word in other languages

blog(English)bitácora(Español)Blog(Deutsch)blog(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bblog
  • blgo
  • bllog
  • blogg
  • bolg
  • lbog

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blog - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bblog1blgo2bllog1blogg1bolg2lbog2
Edit distance from "blog"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "blog"?
"blog" is spelled B-L-O-G. The IPA pronunciation is \blɔɡ\.
What does "blog" mean?
As a noun, "blog" means: Site Web, ou partie de site Web, personnel dans lequel l’auteur note, au fur et à mesure de sa réflexion sur un sujet qui lui importe, des avis, impressions, etc., pour les diffuser et susciter des...
What words are commonly confused with "blog"?
"blog" is commonly confused with "bon", "bob", "box". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "blog"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "blog" is \blɔɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "blog" come from?
"blog" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blog", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

crée#2,272Papa#2,237murs#2,288pote#2,294

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

serai6 variantsMaroc6 variantsneige6 variantspluie6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list