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blighty

/ˈblaɪti/noun

blighty is spelled B-L-I-G-H-T-Y: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blighty means “Alternative form of Blighty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blighty is blighties.

How many letters and syllables are in blighty?

Letters7: B-L-I-G-H-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 86,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is blighty?

Blighty appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st 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 blighty?

  • /ˈblaɪti/

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

Forms of blighty

  • blighties plural

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

What does blighty mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of Blighty.

noun

as Blighty
  1. 1

    slangSynonym of Blighty one.

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

Where does blighty come from?

Corruption of the Hindustani विलायती (vilāytī) / وِلایَتی (vilāyatī, “foreign”), which is related to Arabic ولاية (wilāyah, “state, province”), whence also, through Turkish, vilayet. Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C.

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

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