blottir
\blɔ.tiʁ\
The verdict
“blottir” is uncommon French (frequency #57,114 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,114
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’accroupir, se ramasser de manière à tenir le moins d’espace qu’il est possible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blottir · blottir · French
blottir · rank #57,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,114
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blinder
Nearest frequency peer: blinder (-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 « blottir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- björn
björn
42,890 corpus weight
- Blanqui
Blanqui
42,889 corpus weight
- blinder
blinder
42,888 corpus weight
- blottir
blottir
42,887 corpus weight
- bobards
bobards
42,886 corpus weight
- Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
42,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blottir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blottir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \blɔ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blottir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blottir is uncommon French at frequency #57,114 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \blɔ.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blottir, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is blottir, spelled B-L-O-T-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1S’accroupir, se ramasser de manière à tenir le moins d’espace qu’il est possible.
- 2Se tenir serré l’un contre l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blottir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se déshabilla en hâte, se blottit sous les couvertures.
Se blottir dans un coin, dans le lit, sous la table.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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