blanch

Other forms of blanch

past tense

blanched·

present participle

blanching·

third person

blanches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blanch

What does blanch mean?

blanch means "turn pale, as if in fear". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blanch?

blanch has 1 syllable: blanch. In IPA it is /ˈblæntʃ/.

What is another word for blanch?

Close synonyms include pale, blench, parboil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blanch a common word?

blanch is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.