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blunt

/blʌnt/adjective, noun, verb

blunt is spelled B-L-U-N-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, blunt means “Having a thick edge or point; not sharp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in blunt?

Letters5: B-L-U-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is blunt?

Blunt appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 blunt?

  • US /blʌnt/
  • /blʊnt/

Blunt has one syllable (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-blunt.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with blunt?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as blunt from its last stressed vowel (/ʌnt/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of blunt

  • blunter comparative
  • bluntest superlative
  • blunts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • blunting participle, present
  • blunted participle, past

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

What does blunt mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.

  2. 2

    Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.

  3. 3

    Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

    I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.

  4. 4

    Hard to impress or penetrate.

    December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.

  5. 5

    Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

noun

  1. 1

    A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.

  2. 2

    A short needle with a strong point.

  3. 3

    USslangA marijuana cigar.

  4. 4

    UKarchaicslangMoney.

  5. 5

    A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

verb

  1. 1

    To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

  2. 2

    To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

    It blunted my appetite.

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

Blunt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchémoussé (having a thick edge or point, not sharp), sot, obtus, idiot (dull in understanding; slow of discernment), abrupt (abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious), blunt (cigar filled with marijuana)
Germanstumpf, abgestumpft (having a thick edge or point, not sharp), träge (dull in understanding; slow of discernment), ungehobelt, unverblümt (abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious), Blunt (cigar filled with marijuana)
Portuguesecego, rombo, obtuso (having a thick edge or point, not sharp), brusco (abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious), beque (cigar filled with marijuana), cegar (to dull the edge or point of, by making it…)
Spanishromo, obtuso, desafilado, despuntado, contundente, tundente (having a thick edge or point, not sharp)

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 blunt come from?

From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to shut eyes, to doze”), related to blind (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde). Compare the Scandinavian-German munitons term blind (“non-live, dummy”), opposite of skarp (“live”, literally, “sharp”): Swedish and Danish blind patron (“dummy round”), Danish blindt skud, German blinder schuss (“dummy shot”), blinde granate (“dummy grenade”).

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

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