blue-eyed boy
"blue-eyed-boy" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blue-eyed boy” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The favorite, especially a young one, especially of someone in power; a fair-haired boy (US), (Australian).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blue-eyed boy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blue-eyed boy” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for blue-eyed boy is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for blue-eyed boy in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is blue-eyed boy, spelled B-L-U-E---E-Y-E-D- -B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1The favorite, especially a young one, especially of someone in power; a fair-haired boy (US), (Australian).
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, eyed, boy.
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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 boy”
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- -B-O-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.