blunting
/ˈblʌntɪŋ/
"blunting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blunting” is uncommon English (frequency #91,301 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,301
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of blunt
Corpus desk
Index EN-blunting · blunting · English
blunting · rank #91,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,301
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blusher
Nearest frequency peer: blusher (+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 “blunting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bilious
bilious
8,707 corpus weight
- blackguard
blackguard
8,705 corpus weight
- blunting
blunting
8,700 corpus weight
- blusher
blusher
8,699 corpus weight
- Boileau
Boileau
8,696 corpus weight
- bonhams
bonhams
8,694 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blunting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blunting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈblʌntɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blunting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blunting is uncommon English at frequency #91,301 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈblʌntɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of blunt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blunting, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is blunting, spelled B-L-U-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of blunt
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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