crumpling
"crumpling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crumpling” is uncommon English (frequency #93,585 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,585
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something crumples.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crumpling · crumpling · English
crumpling · rank #93,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,585
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Crispus
Nearest frequency peer: Crispus (-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 “crumpling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crating
crating
6,420 corpus weight
- criminalise
criminalise
6,418 corpus weight
- Crispus
Crispus
6,417 corpus weight
- crumpling
crumpling
6,416 corpus weight
- cryptology
cryptology
6,415 corpus weight
- Cuneo
Cuneo
6,413 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crumpling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crumpling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crumpling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crumpling is uncommon English at frequency #93,585 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crumpling, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is crumpling, spelled C-R-U-M-P-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something crumples.
- 2A crumpled shape or structure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crumpling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.
When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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