blotting
"blotting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blotting” is uncommon English (frequency #50,392 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,392
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A blot; a stain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blotting · blotting · English
blotting · rank #50,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,392
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blunted
Nearest frequency peer: blunted (+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 “blotting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biomechanics
biomechanics
49,613 corpus weight
- blanch
blanch
49,612 corpus weight
- blindside
blindside
49,611 corpus weight
- blotting
blotting
49,609 corpus weight
- blunted
blunted
49,608 corpus weight
- borehole
borehole
49,605 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blotting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blotting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blotting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blotting is uncommon English at frequency #50,392 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
blotting has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is blotting, spelled B-L-O-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A blot; a stain.
- 2The process by which something is blotted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blotting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the mean blottings of an hireling pen
The per cent water was calculated to be 80.7 after 10 blottings[…]
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).