blacklisting
"blacklisting" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blacklisting” is uncommon English (frequency #57,246 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,246
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of placing onto a blacklist.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blacklisting · blacklisting · English
blacklisting · rank #57,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,246
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Blackett
Nearest frequency peer: Blackett (-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 “blacklisting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- birthdate
birthdate
42,757 corpus weight
- Blackett
Blackett
42,756 corpus weight
- blacklisting
blacklisting
42,755 corpus weight
- blanking
blanking
42,753 corpus weight
- bloop
bloop
42,751 corpus weight
- bluesy
bluesy
42,750 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blacklisting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blacklisting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blacklisting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blacklisting is uncommon English at frequency #57,246 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of placing onto a blacklist.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blacklisting, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is blacklisting, spelled B-L-A-C-K-L-I-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of placing onto a blacklist.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blacklisting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.
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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