blow one's nose
"blow-one-s-nose" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blow one's nose” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To expel mucus or other matter from one's nasal passages, via one's nostril, by force of lung power.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blow-one-s-nose · blow one's nose · English
blow one's nose · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 one's nose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blow one's nose” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blow one's nose is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To expel mucus or other matter from one's nasal passages, via one's nostril, by force of lung power.".
blow one's nose doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is blow one's nose, spelled B-L-O-W- -O-N-E-'-S- -N-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1To expel mucus or other matter from one's nasal passages, via one's nostril, by force of lung power.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blow one's nose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-king, you and all your silly English kaniggets [sic].
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.