bloodstone
/ˈblʌdˌstoʊn/
"bloodstone" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bloodstone” is uncommon English (frequency #82,113 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,113
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bloodstone · bloodstone · English
bloodstone · rank #82,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,113
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blinkered
Nearest frequency peer: blinkered (-2 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 “bloodstone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blart
blart
17,893 corpus weight
- bleat
bleat
17,892 corpus weight
- Bleeker
Bleeker
17,891 corpus weight
- blinkered
blinkered
17,890 corpus weight
- bloodstone
bloodstone
17,888 corpus weight
- bluefish
bluefish
17,886 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bloodstone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloodstone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblʌdˌstoʊn/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bloodstone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bloodstone is uncommon English at frequency #82,113 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈblʌdˌstoʊn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bloodstone in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From blood + stone, from the fact that the red inclusions in the stone resemble blood. The correct English form is bloodstone, spelled B-L-O-O-D-S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite.
- 2Hematite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bloodstone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
The magician wore a blood-stone ring […]
Etymology
From blood + stone, from the fact that the red inclusions in the stone resemble blood.
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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