blacklist

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The English entry for blacklist is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈblæklɪst/. Corpus data places it at rank #24,393 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for blacklist, with forms such as "balcklist", "bblacklist", and "blaccklist". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "blacklisted", "blackish", "blackest", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From black + list. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is blacklist, spelled B-L-A-C-K-L-I-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.