blithering
"blithering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blithering” is uncommon English (frequency #84,035 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,035
- 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-blithering · blithering · English
blithering · rank #84,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,035
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blunderbuss
Nearest frequency peer: blunderbuss (+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 “blithering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- birr
birr
15,971 corpus weight
- blithering
blithering
15,966 corpus weight
- blunderbuss
blunderbuss
15,965 corpus weight
- bobbitt
bobbitt
15,964 corpus weight
- Boddy
Boddy
15,963 corpus weight
- bodkin
bodkin
15,962 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blithering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blithering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blithering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blithering is uncommon English at frequency #84,035 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Incoherent or foolish talk.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for blithering, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is blithering, spelled B-L-I-T-H-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Incoherent or foolish talk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blithering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the blitherings of a madman
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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