blount
The verdict
“blount” is uncommon French (frequency #91,452 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,452
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif mécanique installé sur une porte pour la refermer automatiquement lorsqu'elle a été ouverte
Corpus desk
Index FR-blount · blount · French
blount · rank #91,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,452
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blanchissages
Nearest frequency peer: blanchissages (-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 « blount »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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binoclard
8,552 corpus weight
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bisannuelle
8,551 corpus weight
- blanchissag…
blanchissages
8,550 corpus weight
- blount
blount
8,549 corpus weight
- BMI
BMI
8,548 corpus weight
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bobcats
8,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blount » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blount |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blount » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blount is uncommon French at frequency #91,452 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dispositif mécanique installé sur une porte pour la refermer automatiquement lorsqu'elle a été ouverte".
blount has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is blount, spelled B-L-O-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1Dispositif mécanique installé sur une porte pour la refermer automatiquement lorsqu'elle a été ouverte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blount appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après la mort de Lénine, on n'entend en Europe que le bruit mat des portes que le blount referme.
Le mollusque est doué d’une énergie puissante à se renfermer. Ce n’est à vrai dire qu’un muscle, un gond, un blount et sa porte. Le blount ayant sécrété la porte. Deux portes légèrement concaves constituent sa demeure entière.
Synonyms
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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