blog
\blɔɡ\
The verdict
“blog” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,260 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,260
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blog |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blog” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for blog is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blɔɡ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,260 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1Site 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.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “blog”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-L-O-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \blɔɡ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bon” - see the side-by-side comparison. blog vs bon
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.