blanketing
"blanketing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blanketing” is uncommon English (frequency #77,464 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,464
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cloth for making blankets.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blanketing · blanketing · English
blanketing · rank #77,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,464
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blackthorn
Nearest frequency peer: blackthorn (-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 “blanketing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biosafety
biosafety
22,541 corpus weight
- blackthorn
blackthorn
22,538 corpus weight
- blanketing
blanketing
22,537 corpus weight
- blotchy
blotchy
22,536 corpus weight
- bobbins
bobbins
22,535 corpus weight
- boneyard
boneyard
22,534 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blanketing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blanketing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blanketing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blanketing is uncommon English at frequency #77,464 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blanketing, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: By surface analysis, blanket + -ing. The correct English form is blanketing, spelled B-L-A-N-K-E-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Cloth for making blankets.
- 2A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
- 3The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
- 4A maneuver in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
- 5The provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blanketing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1690, uncredited translator, The History of Scotland by George Buchanan, London: Awnsham Churchil, Book I, p. 23, But, now-a-days, many of them wear their Apparel of a dark brown colour, almost like Heath, that so, lying in the Heath-bushes, they might not, in the day-time, be discovered by their Cloaths. Being rather loosly happ’d, than closely covered,…
Then the blanketing tickles—you feel like mixed pickles—so terribly sharp is the pricking, And you’re hot, and you’re cross, and you tumble and toss till there’s nothing ’twixt you and the ticking.
Etymology
By surface analysis, blanket + -ing.
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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