blanking
"blanking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blanking” is uncommon English (frequency #57,248 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,248
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An instance of something being blanked out.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blanking · blanking · English
blanking · rank #57,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,248
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blacklisting
Nearest frequency peer: blacklisting (-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 “blanking”
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 “blanking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blanking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blanking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blanking is uncommon English at frequency #57,248 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blanking, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is blanking, spelled B-L-A-N-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An instance of something being blanked out.
- 2A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
- 3The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blanking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).