bantering
"bantering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bantering” is uncommon English (frequency #73,887 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,887
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - teasing
Corpus desk
Index EN-bantering · bantering · English
bantering · rank #73,887 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,887
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Baran
Nearest frequency peer: Baran (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “bantering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bando
bando
26,118 corpus weight
- bandon
bandon
26,117 corpus weight
- bannock
bannock
26,116 corpus weight
- bantering
bantering
26,114 corpus weight
- Baran
Baran
26,113 corpus weight
- baseband
baseband
26,111 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bantering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bantering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bantering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bantering is uncommon English at frequency #73,887 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bantering in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is bantering, spelled B-A-N-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1teasing
- 2joking; jesting
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bantering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Her smiles were distributed among the tourists, and she learned to give keen answers to their good-humored banterings.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).