blinkered
"blinkered" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blinkered” is uncommon English (frequency #82,111 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,111
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wearing blinkers, that is, blinders.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blinkered · blinkered · English
blinkered · rank #82,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,111
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bleeker
Nearest frequency peer: Bleeker (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “blinkered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blart
blart
17,893 corpus weight
- bleat
bleat
17,892 corpus weight
- Bleeker
Bleeker
17,891 corpus weight
- blinkered
blinkered
17,890 corpus weight
- bloodstone
bloodstone
17,888 corpus weight
- bluefish
bluefish
17,886 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blinkered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blinkered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blinkered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blinkered is uncommon English at frequency #82,111 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blinkered, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is blinkered, spelled B-L-I-N-K-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Wearing blinkers, that is, blinders.
- 2Having tunnel vision; unable to see what is happening around one; narrow-minded.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blinkered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But Delhi's blinkered Kashmir policy since partition in 1947—ignoring UN demands for a self-determination plebiscite, rigging elections, manipulating or overthrowing elected governments, and neglecting economic development—lies at the heart of the problem, according to Barbara Crossette, writing in the Nation.
Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest…
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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