blued
/bluːd/
"blued" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blued” is uncommon English (frequency #79,316 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,316
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of blue
Corpus desk
Index EN-blued · blued · English
blued · rank #79,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,316
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bloodstock
Nearest frequency peer: bloodstock (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “blued”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blimps
blimps
20,689 corpus weight
- bloodstock
bloodstock
20,686 corpus weight
- blued
blued
20,685 corpus weight
- Bocelli
Bocelli
20,683 corpus weight
- Bolles
Bolles
20,682 corpus weight
- boma
boma
20,681 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blued” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blued |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bluːd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blued” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blued is uncommon English at frequency #79,316 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /bluːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of blue".
No generated misspelling entries exist for blued in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is blued, spelled B-L-U-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of blue
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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