Blois
\blwa\
The verdict
“Blois” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,117. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,117
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blois · Blois · French
Blois · rank #13,117 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,117
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blair
Nearest frequency peer: blair (-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 « Blois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Beaumont
Beaumont
86,887 corpus weight
- Bein
Bein
86,886 corpus weight
- blair
blair
86,885 corpus weight
- Blois
Blois
86,884 corpus weight
- body
body
86,883 corpus weight
- bouc
bouc
86,882 corpus weight
What this shows « Blois » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Blois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \blwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Blois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Blois (IPA \blwa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,117 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Blois, with forms such as "bblois", "blios", and "bllois". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bos", "boi", "bois", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Blois, spelled B-L-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Loir-et-Cher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Blois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’éprouve une terreur sacrée en visitant le tragique château de Blois, où il y a du sang sur tous les meubles.
Quand Rabénou Tam fut informé du martyre des juifs de Blois, il ordonna un jeûne, qui fut longtemps observé au jour anniversaire (le 20 Siwan).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblois
- blios
- bllois
- bloiss
- blosi
- bolis
- lbois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Blois - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).