bloodlust
/ˈblʌdˌlʌst/
"bloodlust" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bloodlust” is uncommon English (frequency #56,620 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,620
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bloodlust · bloodlust · English
bloodlust · rank #56,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,620
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blotter
Nearest frequency peer: blotter (+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 “bloodlust”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biomechanic…
biomechanical
43,386 corpus weight
- Bishkek
Bishkek
43,385 corpus weight
- blithely
blithely
43,384 corpus weight
- bloodlust
bloodlust
43,381 corpus weight
- blotter
blotter
43,380 corpus weight
- bool
bool
43,377 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bloodlust” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloodlust |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblʌdˌlʌst/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bloodlust” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bloodlust is uncommon English at frequency #56,620 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈblʌdˌlʌst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bloodlust, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From blood + lust. The correct English form is bloodlust, spelled B-L-O-O-D-L-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bloodlust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.
Etymology
From blood + lust.
This word in other languages
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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