blathering
"blathering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blathering” is uncommon English (frequency #81,170 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,170
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Incoherent or foolish talk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blathering · blathering · English
blathering · rank #81,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,170
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Blais
Nearest frequency peer: Blais (-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 “blathering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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biogeochemical
18,834 corpus weight
- bioluminesc…
bioluminescence
18,833 corpus weight
- Blais
Blais
18,832 corpus weight
- blathering
blathering
18,831 corpus weight
- boatyard
boatyard
18,828 corpus weight
- Bodin
Bodin
18,827 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blathering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blathering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blathering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blathering is uncommon English at frequency #81,170 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blathering, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is blathering, spelled B-L-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Incoherent or foolish talk.
- 2Meaningless nonsense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blathering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the blatherings of a madman
the constant blathering of the TV
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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