bloodsucker
/ˈblʌdˌsʌkɚ/
"bloodsucker" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bloodsucker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bloodsucker · bloodsucker · English
bloodsucker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | bloodsucker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblʌdˌsʌkɚ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bloodsucker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bloodsucker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈblʌdˌsʌkɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bloodsucker in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From blood + sucker. The “changeable lizard” sense is perhaps because of the reddish color of its neck. The correct English form is bloodsucker, spelled B-L-O-O-D-S-U-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
- 2Any parasite.
- 3Any mosquito, gnat, midge, or other small bug which consumes human blood.
- 4One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
- 5A vampire.
- 6The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bloodsucker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meyer, in turn, offered a chaste variation on the promiscuous bloodsuckers of Anne Rice. And back in Rice’s heyday of the 1980s and ’90s, mass market copies of her “Interview With the Vampire” occupied the same spinning racks as other critically slammed authors of the ’70s and ’80s: Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins.
Etymology
From blood + sucker. The “changeable lizard” sense is perhaps because of the reddish color of its neck.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.