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What’s the difference between “blond” and “blonde”?

Updated: 11/11/2022

I’m constantly spelling it either way with no understanding of what the difference is.

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Jaylin Konopelski

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4y ago

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Remember foreign language classes? The masculine and feminine forms of words? Well, because the word came from French in the 17th century, that’s exactly what we’re dealing with: blonde is the feminine form of the noun, and blond is the masculine form.

So, adhering to that rule, a blonde is a woman with fair hair and a blond is a man with fair hair.

This seems dumb. It is. Here’s a way around it: Don’t call people their hair color. “Blond” is the more common spelling of the adjective—for example, “that person has blond hair”—and, especially in the United States, can be used to describe anyone’s hair, regardless of their gender.

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Doris Carter

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А. Уянга

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1y ago
blond has no e blonde has e blond hair color is for boys blonde hair color is for girls thats the diffrence
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Niki

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4y ago

'Blond' Versus 'Blonde'

The word originally came into English from Old French, where it has masculine and feminine forms. As an English noun, it kept those two forms; thus, a blond is a fair-haired male, and a blonde is a fair-haired female.

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Julia M.

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4y ago

These words come from French. Now, you probably know that French, like most other languages, has masculine and feminine forms of words. So, typically, "blond" is used when a male has BLOND hair, and "blonde" is used when a female has BLONDE hair. Hopefully that helped!

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Malayha Nalley

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4y ago

The difference is: As an adjective blond is of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) color.

As a verb blond is to color or dye blond.

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K Roo

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4y ago

blond is when your hair is yellowish and blonde is the french way of saying this!

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Antonio Cruz

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4y ago

No, because there is an "e" at the end of "blonde" but not in "blond".

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Brooke Hart Cullom

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4y ago

People in different places spell it differently, but in America and Australia, they spell it blonde, which originated from Italy.

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Charles Womack

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4y ago

i donowwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ava Gibbs

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4y ago

Blond is a hair color

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Sophie YORKE

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4y ago

blonde is feminine blond is masculine

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