blaze
/bleɪz/noun, verb
blaze is spelled B-L-A-Z-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Blaze, the name). As a noun, blaze means “A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blaze is blazes.
How many letters and syllables are in blaze?
| Letters | 5: B-L-A-Z-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is blaze?
Blaze appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Blaze, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce blaze?
- /bleɪz/
Blaze has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-blaze.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of blaze
- blazes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- blazing participle, present
- blazed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does blaze mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- 2
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.
- 3
A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- 4
A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- 5
A hand consisting of five face cards.
- 6
The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
The palomino had a white blaze on its face.
- 7
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- 8
A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- 9
Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
verb
- 1
To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
The campfire blazed merrily.
- 2
To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- 3
To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- 4
rareTo set in a blaze; burn.
- 5
To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- 6
To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- 7
slangTo smoke marijuana.
- 8
To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- 9
To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- 10
To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.
- 11
To mark off or stake a claim to land.
He blazed his claim on the land.
- 12
To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.
- 13
To blow, as from a trumpet.
- 14
To publish; announce publicly.
- 15
To disclose; bewray; defame.
- 16
To blazon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Blaze in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | feu, flambée, embrasement , brûler, flamber , briller |
| German | (vielzüngige) Flamme, Flammenmeer, Lohe, Feuerzungen , Gleißen, Brennen |
| Portuguese | labareda , brilhar |
| Spanish | llama, llamarada, fogonazo , flamear , llamear |
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 blaze come from?
From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).