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 May 6, 2026) - Someone's favorite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blue-eyed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blue-eyed” sits in English frequency
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).
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.
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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.