blundering
"blundering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blundering” is uncommon English (frequency #62,720 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,720
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of making a blunder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blundering · blundering · English
blundering · rank #62,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,720
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH boh
Nearest frequency peer: boh (+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 “blundering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biofeedback
biofeedback
37,285 corpus weight
- blinker
blinker
37,283 corpus weight
- blundering
blundering
37,281 corpus weight
- boh
boh
37,280 corpus weight
- Bonifacio
Bonifacio
37,279 corpus weight
- Bonilla
Bonilla
37,278 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blundering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blundering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blundering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blundering is uncommon English at frequency #62,720 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of making a blunder.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for blundering, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is blundering, spelled B-L-U-N-D-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of making a blunder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blundering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The captain's blunderings led to the loss of the ship.
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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