bloom
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "bloom", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "bloom" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "bloom" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
bloom is aEnglishnoun. It means: A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. Pronounced /bluːm/. It ranks #7,888 in English word frequency. Often confused with boo and BOM.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bluːm/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bloom is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bluːm/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,888 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bloom, with forms such as "bbloom", "blloom", and "blom". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boo", "BOM", "book", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more. 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 bloom, spelled B-L-O-O-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
- 2Flowers.
- 3The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
- 4A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
- 5Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
- 6The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
- 7Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
- 8An algal bloom.
- 9The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
- 10A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- 11A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
- 12A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
- 13A natural protective coating on an eggshell.
- 14An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
- 15The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
- 16A fan of Filipino girl group BINI.
- 17A group of ladybugs.
Etymology
From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbloom,blloom,blom,blomo,bloomm,bolom,lboom
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bloom
Misspelling Variants of "bloom"
Frequency rank: #7,888 in English
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