blood type
/ˈblʌd taɪp/
"blood-type" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blood type” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any classification of human blood by the presence or absence of various antigens in a person’s red blood cells.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blood-type · blood type · English
blood type · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 type |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblʌd taɪp/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blood type” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blood type is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈblʌd taɪp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
blood type has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is blood type, spelled B-L-O-O-D- -T-Y-P-E.
Definition
- 1Any classification of human blood by the presence or absence of various antigens in a person’s red blood cells.
- 2Any classification of human blood by the presence or absence of various antigens in a person’s red blood cells.
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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.