bartending
"bartending" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bartending” is uncommon English (frequency #54,034 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,034
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bartending · bartending · English
bartending · rank #54,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,034
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bayswater
Nearest frequency peer: Bayswater (+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 “bartending”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bakewell
Bakewell
45,970 corpus weight
- balsa
balsa
45,969 corpus weight
- bartending
bartending
45,967 corpus weight
- Bayswater
Bayswater
45,966 corpus weight
- beading
beading
45,965 corpus weight
- beady
beady
45,964 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bartending” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bartending |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bartending” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bartending is uncommon English at frequency #54,034 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bartending in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bar + tending. The correct English form is bartending, spelled B-A-R-T-E-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bartending appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"I need to know if any of them took a specific drink order recently. An angel shot." The manager raised an eyebrow. "Angel shot? Isn't that--" Kelly nodded. In the bartending business, it was well known that an "angel shot" wasn't a real drink, but was instead a code word that women could use to signal that they were in trouble.
Etymology
From bar + tending.
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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Same letter count
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