blathering
"blathering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blathering” is an uncommon English word, ranked #81,170 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #81,170
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Incoherent or foolish talk.
| 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) |
Where “blathering” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for blathering is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #81,170 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “blathering”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-L-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.