Blondeau
\blɔ̃.do\
The verdict
“Blondeau” is uncommon French (frequency #53,164 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,164
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blondeau · Blondeau · French
Blondeau · rank #53,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,164
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bleuet
Nearest frequency peer: bleuet (-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 « Blondeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- binationaux
binationaux
46,840 corpus weight
- bleuet
bleuet
46,838 corpus weight
- Blondeau
Blondeau
46,837 corpus weight
- bondissant
bondissant
46,836 corpus weight
- bouillonnem…
bouillonnement
46,835 corpus weight
- bouledogue
bouledogue
46,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Blondeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blondeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \blɔ̃.do\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Blondeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Blondeau is uncommon French at frequency #53,164 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \blɔ̃.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Blondeau has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Blondeau, spelled B-L-O-N-D-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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