blotched
/blɒtʃt/
"blotched" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blotched” is uncommon English (frequency #97,859 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,859
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-blotched · blotched · English
blotched · rank #97,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,859
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blore
Nearest frequency peer: blore (-1 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 “blotched”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Blitzen
Blitzen
2,145 corpus weight
- bloodsucking
bloodsucking
2,144 corpus weight
- blore
blore
2,143 corpus weight
- blotched
blotched
2,142 corpus weight
- Bloxham
Bloxham
2,141 corpus weight
- boatwright
boatwright
2,138 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blotched” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blotched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /blɒtʃt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blotched” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blotched is uncommon English at frequency #97,859 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /blɒtʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).".
blotched doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From blotch + -ed. The correct English form is blotched, spelled B-L-O-T-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blotched appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Dutch think no People are so much troubled with the Scurvy as they: But they mistake. There are more blotched Faces in one Town in England, than in the whole Dutch Province [...]
1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second, The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward.
Etymology
From blotch + -ed.
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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