blood
/blʌd/
"blood" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blood” is in the everyday core of English, ranked #823 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #823
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumpe...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blood |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /blʌd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blood” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for blood is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /blʌd/. Corpus data places it at rank #823 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for blood, with forms such as "bblood", "bllood", and "blod". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boo", "bod", "book", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-? Proto-Germanic *blōþą Proto-West Germanic *blōd Old English blōd Middle English blood English blood From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, po… The correct English form is blood, spelled B-L-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
- 2A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.
- 3One of the four humours in the human body.
- 4The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid or period blood.
- 5A blood test or blood sample.
- 6The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
- 7The juice of anything, especially if red.
- 8A temper of mind; a disposition; a mood.
- 9A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
- 10A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
- 11Bloodshed.
- 12A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.
- 13Alternative letter-case form of Blood (“a member of a certain gang”).
- 14Alternative form of blud (“an informal address to a male.”).
- 15Lean, especially that is red.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-? Proto-Germanic *blōþą Proto-West Germanic *blōd Old English blōd Middle English blood English blood From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e. "that which bursts out". Cognate with Scots blude, bluid (“blood”), North Frisian blud, blödj, Blör (“blood”), Saterland Frisian Bloud (“blood”), West Frisian bloed (“blood”), Cimbrian pluat, pluut (“blood”), Dutch bloed (“blood”), German Blut (“blood”), German Low German Blood, Bloot (“blood”), Luxembourgish Blutt (“blood”), Vilamovian błüt (“blood”), Yiddish בלוט (blut, “blood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish blod (“blood”), Faroese and Icelandic blóð (“blood”), Crimean Gothic plut (“blood”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (blōþ, “blood”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bblood,bllood,blod,blodo,bloodd,bolod,lbood
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blood - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “blood”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-L-O-O-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /blʌd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “boo” - see the side-by-side comparison. blood vs boo
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.