blakey
"blakey" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blakey” is uncommon English (frequency #67,265 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,265
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blakey · blakey · English
blakey · rank #67,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,265
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blab
Nearest frequency peer: blab (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “blakey”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Birkbeck
Birkbeck
32,740 corpus weight
- bisected
bisected
32,738 corpus weight
- blab
blab
32,737 corpus weight
- blakey
blakey
32,736 corpus weight
- Bleecker
Bleecker
32,735 corpus weight
- blowfish
blowfish
32,733 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blakey” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blakey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blakey” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blakey is uncommon English at frequency #67,265 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.".
blakey doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Blakey, a brand name of cast-iron shoe protectors invented in 1880 by John Blakey. The correct English form is blakey, spelled B-L-A-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blakey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She wouldn't actually bring the shoes herself, but she would drive down with any complaints or remarks. I was expected to know instantly […] which pair she meant out of a sackful, and be able to suggest rubber heels, or a blakey, or whatever she would like.
Etymology
From Blakey, a brand name of cast-iron shoe protectors invented in 1880 by John Blakey.
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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