clattering
"clattering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clattering” is uncommon English (frequency #54,081 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,081
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a state or process of being clattered.
Corpus desk
Index EN-clattering · clattering · English
clattering · rank #54,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,081
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coherently
Nearest frequency peer: coherently (+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 “clattering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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Chickasaw
45,922 corpus weight
- clattering
clattering
45,920 corpus weight
- coherently
coherently
45,919 corpus weight
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coitus
45,918 corpus weight
- cokes
cokes
45,917 corpus weight
- collectivism
collectivism
45,916 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “clattering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clattering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “clattering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
clattering is uncommon English at frequency #54,081 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a state or process of being clattered.".
Zero misspellings are on record for clattering in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is clattering, spelled C-L-A-T-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1In a state or process of being clattered.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clattering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Do we really need another doe-eyed female singer-songwriter with a penchant for electro-pop? Twenty-two-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, certainly thinks so. Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the song's end, big clattering drums.
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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