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blend

/blɛnd/noun, verb

blend is spelled B-L-E-N-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blend means “A mixture of two or more things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blend is blends.

How many letters and syllables are in blend?

Letters5: B-L-E-N-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.9 times per million words; the 7,672nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like

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 blend?

Blend appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd 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 blend?

  • /blɛnd/

Blend 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-blend.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with blend

Sounds like: blende (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of blend

  • blends plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • blending participle, present
  • blended participle, past
  • blent participle, past

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

What does blend mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A mixture of two or more things.

    Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.

  2. 2

    A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.

verb

  1. 1

    To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

    To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.

  2. 2

    To be mingled or mixed.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

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

Blend in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmélange (mixture), mélanger, mêler, mixer (to mix)
GermanMischung (mixture), mischen, mixen, vermischen (to mix)
Portuguesemistura, mescla, combinação, amálgama (mixture), misturar (to mix), misturar-se (to be mixed)
Spanishmezcla (mixture), mezclar, licuar (to mix)

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 blend come from?

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).

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

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