put someone on blast
"put-someone-on-blast" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“put someone on blast” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To embarrass by publicly denouncing or exposing, especially by using social media.
Corpus desk
Index EN-put-someone-on-blast · put someone on blast · English
put someone on blast · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | put someone on blast |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “put someone on blast” in English
Rare enough to double-check
put someone on blast is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To embarrass by publicly denouncing or exposing, especially by using social media.".
No misspelling variants are generated for put someone on blast in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is put someone on blast, spelled P-U-T- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E- -O-N- -B-L-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1To embarrass by publicly denouncing or exposing, especially by using social media.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how put someone on blast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For one, putting Sapp on blast like that without knowing his circumstances isn't very classy nor professional and two who's to say the waitress didn't supply good service which is a very popular reason as to why some people don't tip.
Mia Khalifa has no problem calling people out for constantly sliding into her DM’s. Buffalo Bills safety Duke Williams learned that the hard way when the porn star put him on blast for doing just that via Twitter.
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.