blabbing
/ˈblæbɪŋ/
"blabbing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blabbing” is uncommon English (frequency #88,128 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,128
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of blab
Corpus desk
Index EN-blabbing · blabbing · English
blabbing · rank #88,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,128
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blemished
Nearest frequency peer: blemished (+2 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 “blabbing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bijan
Bijan
11,878 corpus weight
- bikeway
bikeway
11,877 corpus weight
- Billericay
Billericay
11,876 corpus weight
- blabbing
blabbing
11,873 corpus weight
- blemished
blemished
11,871 corpus weight
- blustering
blustering
11,869 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blabbing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blabbing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈblæbɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blabbing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blabbing is uncommon English at frequency #88,128 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈblæbɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of blab".
No generated misspelling entries exist for blabbing in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is blabbing, spelled B-L-A-B-B-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of blab
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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