blood-boiling
"blood-boiling" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blood-boiling” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extremely angry; furious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blood-boiling · blood-boiling · English
blood-boiling · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blood-boiling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blood-boiling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blood-boiling is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Extremely angry; furious.".
blood-boiling has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is blood-boiling, spelled B-L-O-O-D---B-O-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Extremely angry; furious.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blood-boiling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Just as our combined anticipation was starting to build to a blood-boiling crescendo, the swell lines disappeared from underneath us, intercepted by the coastline of approaching islands to our north.
The bearded Russian sage who inspired both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King couldn't resist a blood-boiling bayonet fight, or a good duel with an old writer friend who had insulted him.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.