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blood red

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.90 in modern English

Syllables
blood- red
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dark red color.

adj

Of a deep vivid red color.

Etymology

From Middle English blodred, blodread, Old English blōdrēad (“bloodred”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdaraud, from Proto-Germanic *blōþaraudaz, equivalent to blood + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bloudrood (“bloodred”), West Frisian bloedread (“bloodred”), Dutch bloedrood (“bloodred”), Low German bloodrood (“bloodred”), German blutrot (“bloodred”), Swedish blodröd (“bloodred”), Icelandic blóðrauður (“bloodred”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: blodred, blōdrēad, *blōdaraud, *blōþaraudaz

Inflected Forms

blood reds (plural) bloodred (alternative) blood-red (alternative) more blood red (comparative) most blood red (superlative)

Phrases

blood-red ant blood-red slave-maker

Questions

What does blood red mean?
A dark red color.
Where does blood red come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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