blurting
"blurting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blurting” is uncommon English (frequency #89,171 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,171
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blurting · blurting · English
blurting · rank #89,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,171
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blitzes
Nearest frequency peer: blitzes (-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 “blurting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blandly
blandly
10,833 corpus weight
- blitzes
blitzes
10,831 corpus weight
- blurting
blurting
10,830 corpus weight
- Bomer
Bomer
10,828 corpus weight
- bort
bort
10,827 corpus weight
- Bosman
Bosman
10,826 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blurting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blurting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blurting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blurting is uncommon English at frequency #89,171 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.".
blurting doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is blurting, spelled B-L-U-R-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blurting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The school often has far more information than parents realise, e.g. from the blurtings of the child and his peers, the behaviour of the parents, and what the school bus driver has seen.
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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