se blottir
\sə blɔ.tiʁ\
The verdict
“se blottir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’accroupir, se ramasser de manière à tenir le moins d’espace possible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-blottir · se blottir · French
se blottir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se blottir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə blɔ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se blottir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se blottir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə blɔ.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
se blottir has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 se blottir, spelled S-E- -B-L-O-T-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1S’accroupir, se ramasser de manière à tenir le moins d’espace possible.
- 2Se tenir l’un contre l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se blottir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par cette matinée glaciale d'octobre, où tombait un mélange de pluie et de neige fondue, les deux enfants, faute de places dans l'intérieur et la rotonde, durent se blottir sous la bâche, derrière le conducteur.
Les perdrix se blottissent devant le chien.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.