blowed
"blowed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blowed” is uncommon English (frequency #68,881 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,881
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of blow
Corpus desk
Index EN-blowed · blowed · English
blowed · rank #68,881 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,881
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blinky
Nearest frequency peer: blinky (-3 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 “blowed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Birks
Birks
31,127 corpus weight
- biscotti
biscotti
31,126 corpus weight
- blinky
blinky
31,123 corpus weight
- blowed
blowed
31,120 corpus weight
- boggle
boggle
31,116 corpus weight
- bombast
bombast
31,114 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blowed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blowed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blowed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blowed is uncommon English at frequency #68,881 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of blow".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for blowed, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 blowed, spelled B-L-O-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of blow
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blowed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] “but tills ain’t to be emptied every day, and people to get clear off after it.” “Tills be blowed!” said Mr. Claypole; “there’s more things besides tills to be emptied.” “What do you mean?” asked his companion. “Pockets, women’s ridicules, houses, mailcoaches, banks,” said Mr. Claypole, rising with the porter.
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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