blurting

noun

"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

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “blurting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for blurting
PropertyValue
Headwordblurting
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#89,171
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “blurting” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).blurtingfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “blitzes” (#89,170), “Bomer” (#89,173), “blandly” (#89,168). Among 4,121 “B” headwords, “blurting” is #89,171. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how blurting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "blurting"?
"blurting" is spelled B-L-U-R-T-I-N-G.
What does "blurting" mean?
As a noun, "blurting" means: Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blurting", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list