blue-eyed boy
"blue-eyed-boy" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blue-eyed boy” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The favorite, especially a young one, especially of someone in power; a fair-haired boy (US), (Australian).
Corpus desk
Index EN-blue-eyed-boy · blue-eyed boy · English
blue-eyed boy · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 boy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blue-eyed boy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blue-eyed boy is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blue-eyed boy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
...this cove was so deucedly civil, and all that, that now she won't look at anybody else. He's the blue-eyed boy, and everybody else is an also-ran.
"Keep it up, Mandrake," he said. "Just keep it up. You may be the Prime Minister's blue-eyed boy now, but how long's that going to last if you don't deliver?"
Synonyms
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.