bloodstained
/ˈblʌdˌsteɪnd/
"bloodstained" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bloodstained” is uncommon English (frequency #55,286 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,286
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bloodstained · bloodstained · English
bloodstained · rank #55,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,286
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Blaney
Nearest frequency peer: Blaney (-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 “bloodstained”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biophysical
biophysical
44,719 corpus weight
- biplane
biplane
44,717 corpus weight
- Blaney
Blaney
44,716 corpus weight
- bloodstained
bloodstained
44,715 corpus weight
- bogie
bogie
44,713 corpus weight
- boomtown
boomtown
44,712 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bloodstained” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloodstained |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈblʌdˌsteɪnd/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bloodstained” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bloodstained is uncommon English at frequency #55,286 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈblʌdˌsteɪnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
bloodstained has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From blood + stained. The correct English form is bloodstained, spelled B-L-O-O-D-S-T-A-I-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood.
- 2Having the color of something which has been stained with blood.
- 3Responsible for the deaths of others; guilty of murder.
- 4Guilty of wrongdoing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bloodstained appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This self-delusion is even more the case with Trotsky, whose bloodstained intolerance is generally passed over because the 1960s student generation pretended then, and pretends still, that Trotsky was in some way a freedom-loving, Gulag-free alternative to Stalin.
Etymology
From blood + stained.
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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