common starling
"common-starling" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“common starling” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A bird of the species Sturnus vulgaris.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | common starling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “common starling” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for common starling is 15 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A bird of the species Sturnus vulgaris.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for common starling, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Calque of translingual Sturnus vulgaris, via common + starling. The correct English form is common starling, spelled C-O-M-M-O-N- -S-T-A-R-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A bird of the species Sturnus vulgaris.
Etymology
Calque of translingual Sturnus vulgaris, via common + starling.
Synonyms
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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.
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Using “common starling”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-M-O-N- -S-T-A-R-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.