blow-up
"blow-up" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blow-up” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflatable; able to be blown up.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blow-up · blow-up · English
blow-up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 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-up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blow-up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blow-up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflatable; able to be blown up.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blow-up, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from blow up. The correct English form is blow-up, spelled B-L-O-W---U-P.
Definition
- 1Inflatable; able to be blown up.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blow-up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
Etymology
Deverbal from blow up.
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.