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blast

/blæst/noun, verb, interjection

blast is spelled B-L-A-S-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blast means “A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blast is blasts.

How many letters and syllables are in blast?

Letters5: B-L-A-S-T
Syllables1
In writing21 times per million words; the 4,153rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is blast?

Blast appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce blast?

  • UK /blɑːst/
  • US /blæst/

Blast has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-blast.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-blast.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with blast?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as blast from its last stressed vowel (/æst/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of blast

  • blasts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • blasting participle, present
  • blasted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does blast mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).

  2. 2

    A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.

  3. 3

    A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.

  4. 4

    The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.

    Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.

  5. 5

    The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

  6. 6

    An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.

    arc blast

  7. 7

    A direct and fast swing of a bat; a home run.

  8. 8

    A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.

    My manager gave me a blast yesterday for coming in late.

  9. 9

    An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

verb

  1. 1

    To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.

  2. 2

    To make a loud noise.

  3. 3

    informalTo play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.

  4. 4

    To shatter, as if by an explosion.

  5. 5

    To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).

    Blast right through it.

  6. 6

    To curse; to damn.

    Blast it! Foiled again.

  7. 7

    To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).

    Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

  8. 8

    To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.

  9. 9

    informalTo run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).

interjection

  1. 1

    UKinformalUsed to show anger or disappointment: damn

verb

as BLAST
  1. 1

    informalAlternative letter-case form of blast (to run a sequence through BLAST)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Blast in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrafale (violent gust of wind), explosion, souffle (explosion), chose géniale, génial (good time), blaste (an immature or precursor cell)
GermanWindstoß (violent gust of wind)
Portugueseventania (violent gust of wind), explosão (explosion), arraso (good time), poxa vida, apre, pombas (damn it)
Spanish(ser una) pasada, bomba, (gozar del) desmadre, alucine, (parecerle un) alucín (good time), chorro explosivo (forcible stream of fluid)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does blast come from?

Inherited from Middle English blast, from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāstu, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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