color blindness
/ˈkʌl.ɚ.blaɪnd.nəs/
"color-blindness" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“color blindness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia or Daltonism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-color-blindness · color blindness · English
color blindness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | color blindness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkʌl.ɚ.blaɪnd.nəs/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “color blindness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
color blindness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkʌl.ɚ.blaɪnd.nəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for color blindness, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From color blind + -ness or color + blindness. The correct English form is color blindness, spelled C-O-L-O-R- -B-L-I-N-D-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia or Daltonism.
- 2An indifference to a person's skin color or race.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how color blindness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Despite the fact that race is embedded in American social life, "color blindness" has recently emerged as the dominant ideology of race.
Etymology
From color blind + -ness or color + blindness.
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.