feathering
"feathering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“feathering” is uncommon English (frequency #54,174 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,174
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plumage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-feathering · feathering · English
feathering · rank #54,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,174
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH feckless
Nearest frequency peer: feckless (+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 “feathering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- experimenter
experimenter
45,833 corpus weight
- eze
eze
45,831 corpus weight
- feathering
feathering
45,827 corpus weight
- feckless
feckless
45,826 corpus weight
- Fellowes
Fellowes
45,824 corpus weight
- fetches
fetches
45,822 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “feathering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feathering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “feathering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
feathering is uncommon English at frequency #54,174 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for feathering, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 feathering, spelled F-E-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Plumage.
- 2A feathered texture.
- 3The fitting of feathers to arrows.
- 4An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
- 5Visible offshoots of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feathering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings, the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered […]
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).