blue-eyed

adj

"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 May 6, 2026) - Someone's favorite.

Key facts for blue-eyed
PropertyValue
Headwordblue-eyed
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “blue-eyed” sits in English frequency

blue-eyed falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Someone's favorite.
  2. 2
    Naive; innocent; ingenuous.
  3. 3
    Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
  4. 4
    Characteristic of or pertaining to white people; Caucasian.
  5. 5
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed (or eye, -ed).

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "blue-eyed"?
"blue-eyed" is spelled B-L-U-E---E-Y-E-D.
What does "blue-eyed" mean?
As an adjective, "blue-eyed" means: Someone's favorite.
What language does "blue-eyed" come from?
"blue-eyed" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Using “blue-eyed”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is B-L-U-E---E-Y-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list