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blot

/blɑt/noun, verb

blot is spelled B-L-O-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blot means “A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blot is blots or blóts.

How many letters and syllables are in blot?

Letters4: B-L-O-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.1 times per million words; the 27,820th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is blot?

Blot appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce blot?

  • UK /blɒt/
  • US /blɑt/

Blot has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-blot.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with blot?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as blot from its last stressed vowel (/ɑt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: bolt.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of blot

  • blots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • blotting participle, present
  • blotted participle, past
  • blóts plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does blot mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

  2. 2

    A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.

  3. 3

    A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.

  4. 4

    An exposed piece in backgammon.

verb

  1. 1

    To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.

  2. 2

    To soak up or absorb liquid.

    This paper blots easily.

  3. 3

    To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.

  4. 4

    To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

  5. 5

    To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

  6. 6

    To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

  7. 7

    To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.

    to blot out a word or a sentence

  8. 8

    To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

noun

as blót
  1. 1

    A Norse (and modern Heathen) ceremonial offering.

    Do you know how to blót? / Do you know how to slaughter?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Blot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtache, pâté (blemish, spot or stain), souillure (stain on someone's reputation or character), tacher (to cause a blot)
GermanFleck, Klecks (blemish, spot or stain), Schandfleck (stain on someone's reputation or character), beflecken, kleckern (to cause a blot), ablöschen (to hide, obscure or obliterate)
Portuguesemancha, borrão (blemish, spot or stain), mácula (stain on someone's reputation or character), manchar, borrar (to cause a blot)
Spanishmancha, mácula, parchón, manchurrón (blemish, spot or stain), desdoro (stain on someone's reputation or character), emborronar (to cause a blot)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does blot come from?

From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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