blue-eyed
"blue-eyed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blue-eyed” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone's favorite.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blue-eyed · blue-eyed · English
blue-eyed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | blue-eyed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blue-eyed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blue-eyed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for blue-eyed in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is blue-eyed, spelled B-L-U-E---E-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1Someone's favorite.
- 2Naive; innocent; ingenuous.
- 3Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
- 4Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
- 5Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed (or eye, -ed).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blue-eyed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
blue-eyed boy
“I wouldn't marry anyone else if they came to me bringing apes, ivory and peacocks. Tell me what he was like as a boy.” “Oh, much the same as the rest of us.” “Nonsense!” “Except, of course, for rescuing people from burning buildings and saving blue-eyed children from getting squashed by runaway horses.” “He did that a lot?” “Almost daily.”
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.