Blackfoot
/ˈblæk.fʊt/
"blackfoot" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Blackfoot” is uncommon English (frequency #55,960 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,960
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blackfoot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblæk.fʊt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Blackfoot” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Blackfoot is uncommon English at frequency #55,960 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈblæk.fʊt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.".
Blackfoot has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Blackfoot, spelled B-L-A-C-K-F-O-O-T.
Definition
- 1A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Blackfoot”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-L-A-C-K-F-O-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.