bunching
"bunching" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bunching” is uncommon English (frequency #73,937 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,937
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An arrangement of items in a bunch.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bunching · bunching · English
bunching · rank #73,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,937
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH buprenorphine
Nearest frequency peer: buprenorphine (+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 “bunching”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bulimic
bulimic
26,069 corpus weight
- bulked
bulked
26,068 corpus weight
- bunching
bunching
26,064 corpus weight
- buprenorphi…
buprenorphine
26,063 corpus weight
- caiman
caiman
26,061 corpus weight
- Caldecott
Caldecott
26,060 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bunching” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bunching |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bunching” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bunching is uncommon English at frequency #73,937 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bunching in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is bunching, spelled B-U-N-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An arrangement of items in a bunch.
- 2An occurrence of things in a bunch.
- 3The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bunching appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The foreign ladies, in their simple, tasteful, fresh attire, innocent of the humpings and bunchings, the monstrosities and deformities of ultra-fashionable bad taste, beamed with cheerfulness, friendliness, and kindliness.
Why do we sometimes find three buses on the same route arriving together at a bus stop? What is the explanation of bunching? […] Meanwhile there are other buses following on the same route. The 600-yard interval between the second and third bus is decreased by every second's delay to the leaders, and before long the third bus has caught up. That is why bu…
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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