blast furnace
"blast-furnace" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blast furnace” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blast-furnace · blast furnace · English
blast furnace · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blast furnace |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blast furnace” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blast furnace is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blast furnace, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 blast furnace, spelled B-L-A-S-T- -F-U-R-N-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
- 2An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blast furnace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Holonyms: ironworks, steelworks
Meronym: tuyeres
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.