bad blood
The verdict
“bad blood” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Animosité, sentiment d'hostilité, malfaisance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bad blood |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bad blood” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bad blood is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bad blood in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bad blood, spelled B-A-D- -B-L-O-O-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animosité, sentiment d'hostilité, malfaisance.
- 2Querelle, rancune, vendetta.
- 3Nature immorale ou perturbée.
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Using “bad blood”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-D- -B-L-O-O-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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