bloody

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The English entry for bloody is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈblʌ.diː/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,428 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for bloody, with forms such as "bbloody", "blloody", and "blodoy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "body", "bloom", "booty", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English blōdiġ, blōdeġ (“bloody”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdag, from Proto-Germanic *blōþagaz (“bloody”), equivalent to blood + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bläidich, blöidig, blouderch (“bloody”), West … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is bloody, spelled B-L-O-O-D-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.