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blueprint

/ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/noun, verb

blueprint is spelled B-L-U-E-P-R-I-N-T: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blueprint means “A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blueprint is blueprints.

How many letters and syllables are in blueprint?

Letters9: B-L-U-E-P-R-I-N-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is blueprint?

Blueprint appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce blueprint?

  • /ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/

Blueprint has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-blueprint.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with blueprint

Also written: blue-print (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of blueprint

  • blueprints plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • blue print
  • blue-print
  • blueprinting participle, present
  • blueprinted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does blueprint mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

  2. 2

    A print produced with this process.

  3. 3

    A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

  4. 4

    informalAny detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

verb

  1. 1

    To make a blueprint for.

    The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.

  2. 2

    To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out.

    They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Blueprint in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcyanotype (cyanotype reproduction process), blueprint (any detailed technical drawing)
GermanDiazotypie, Blaupause (cyanotype reproduction process), Entwurf (any detailed technical drawing), Lichtpause (print produced by this process), Plan (any detailed plan of action)
Portuguesecianotipo (cyanotype reproduction process), planta, projeto (any detailed technical drawing)
Spanishcianotipia (cyanotype reproduction process), copia de plano, plano (any detailed technical drawing), cianotipo (print produced by this process), hoja de ruta (any detailed plan of action)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does blueprint come from?

From blue + print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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