blotter
"blotter" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blotter” is uncommon English (frequency #56,621 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,621
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blotter · blotter · English
blotter · rank #56,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,621
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bloodlust
Nearest frequency peer: bloodlust (-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 “blotter”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bishkek
Bishkek
43,385 corpus weight
- blithely
blithely
43,384 corpus weight
- bloodlust
bloodlust
43,381 corpus weight
- blotter
blotter
43,380 corpus weight
- bool
bool
43,377 corpus weight
- Borisov
Borisov
43,376 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blotter” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blotter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blotter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blotter is uncommon English at frequency #56,621 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
blotter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From blot + -er. The correct English form is blotter, spelled B-L-O-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
- 2A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.
- 3A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.
- 4A portion of blotter acid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blotter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
He maintains the political blotter blog.
Etymology
From blot + -er.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blotter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).