blakey
"blakey" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blakey” is uncommon English (frequency #67,265 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,265
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.
| 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) |
Where “blakey” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
blakey is uncommon English at frequency #67,265 among 31,241 “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.
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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Using “blakey”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-L-A-K-E-Y - 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.