breaking news
"breaking-news" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breaking news” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - News that has either just happened or is currently happening.
Corpus desk
Index EN-breaking-news · breaking news · English
breaking news · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breaking news |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “breaking news” in English
Rare enough to double-check
breaking news is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "News that has either just happened or is currently happening.".
breaking news doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is breaking news, spelled B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G- -N-E-W-S.
Definition
- 1News that has either just happened or is currently happening.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breaking news appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Breaking news may contain incomplete information, factual errors, or poor editing because of a rush to publication.
There is also breaking news that the delayed Crossrail project in London cannot be completed without a further £80 million injection of funds.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.