blowout
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "blowout", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "blowout" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "blowout" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
blowout is aEnglishnoun. It means: A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire. Pronounced /ˈbloʊaʊt/.
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| Headword | blowout |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbloʊaʊt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for blowout is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbloʊaʊt/. Corpus data places it at rank #22,303 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for blowout, with forms such as "bblowout", "bllowout", and "bloowut". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from blow out. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is blowout, spelled B-L-O-W-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- 2A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
- 3A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
- 4A large or extravagant meal.
- 5A contest that is decidedly one-sided; an overwhelming victory.
- 6An argument; an altercation.
- 7A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
- 8An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
- 9An act of defecation in which an incontinent person, usually an infant or toddler, produces a large amount of excrement that causes their diaper to overflow and leak.
- 10The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- 11An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
- 12An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
- 13The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
- 14The damage done to the exit side of a drilled hole or sawn edge when no sacrificial backerboard is used during the drilling or sawing: the drill bit's or sawblade's exit on the far side causes chips of wood to be broken from the edge.
- 15a party (such as a birthday party)
- 16Synonym of taper fade.
- 17Synonym of blowout sale.
Etymology
Deverbal from blow out.
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Also misspelled as: bblowout,bllowout,bloowut,blowotu,blowoutt,blowuot,blowwout,blwoout,bolwout,lbowout
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Frequency rank: #22,303 in English
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