# Bligh

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #40,584

## Definitions
1. A surname from Irish.

## Etymology
* As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Blighe (“descendant of Blighe”), probably Gaelicized from Old Norse Blígr, from blígja (“to gaze, stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyg-, from *bʰel- (“to shine”).
* As a Cornish surname, from bleydh (“wolf”). Compare Blethen.
* As an English surname of Norman origin, variant of Blythe.

## Easily confused with
- **blog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blog)
- **brig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-brig)
- **blip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blip)
- **blind** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blind)
- **bliss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-bliss)
- **blink** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blink)
- **blitz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blitz)
- **blush** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blush)
- **bling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-bling)
- **Bloch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-bloch)
- **burgh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-burgh)
- **blimp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blimp)
- **bough** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-bough)
- **Blyth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blyth)
- **bright** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-bright)
- **blight** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-blight)
- **bluish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bligh-vs-bluish)
- **big** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/big-vs-bligh)
- **blah** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/blah-vs-bligh)
- **bigg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bigg-vs-bligh)

## Common misspellings (8)
`bbligh`, `bilgh`, `blgih`, `bliggh`, `blighh`, `blihg`, `blligh`, `lbigh`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bligh