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Blond or blonde?

blond is an adjective meaning “Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour”; blonde is a noun meaning “Alternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a…”. Use blond as an adjective and blonde as a noun (blonde is also an adjective: “Stupid, ignorant, naive”). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) blonde is about 3.1 times as common as blond.

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What is the difference between blond and blonde?

blondblonde
Part of speechadjective, noun, verbnoun, adjective, verb
Meaning

Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour

Particularly of a person, having blond hair

A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color

(film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp

offensiveStupid, ignorant, naive

Exampleblond hairnone recorded
Formsblonder, blondestblondes
Pronunciation/blɒnd/ /blɑnd//blɒnd/ /blɑnd/
In writing3.5 times per million words11 times per million words

Sources: blond and blonde in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Every current meaning of blond and blonde

blond

  1. 1

    adjective Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour

    blond hair

  2. 2

    noun A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color

  3. 3

    verb To color or dye blond

  4. 4

    adjective Particularly of a person, having blond hair

  5. 5

    noun A person with this hair color

  6. 6

    adjective Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”)

  7. 7

    noun A beer of a pale golden color

blonde

  1. 1

    noun Alternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)

  2. 2

    adjective Alternative form of blond

  3. 3

    verb Alternative form of blond

  4. 4

    noun Alternative form of blond (“color”)

  5. 5

    adjective offensiveStupid, ignorant, naive

  6. 6

    noun Alternative form of blond (“type of beer”)

  7. 7

    noun (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp

Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.

Which is more common, blond or blonde?

blond appears 3.5 times per million words; blonde 11 times per million words.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How many people search blond vs blonde?

“blond vs blonde” is searched about 18,100 times a month on Google and 360 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“blonde vs blond”, “blond or blonde”).

Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.

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