blow a gasket
"blow-a-gasket" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blow a gasket” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To become very angry or upset.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blow-a-gasket · blow a gasket · English
blow a gasket · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blow a gasket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blow a gasket” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blow a gasket is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for blow a gasket in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is blow a gasket, spelled B-L-O-W- -A- -G-A-S-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1To become very angry or upset.
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, gasket. To cause the seal made by a gasket to fail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blow a gasket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jack blew a gasket when he saw his son's poor report card.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.