filibustering
"filibustering" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“filibustering” is uncommon English (frequency #82,294 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,294
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who filibusters.
Corpus desk
Index EN-filibustering · filibustering · English
filibustering · rank #82,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,294
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH finasteride
Nearest frequency peer: finasteride (+1 rank slots)
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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 “filibustering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Fermat
Fermat
17,711 corpus weight
- filibusteri…
filibustering
17,707 corpus weight
- finasteride
finasteride
17,706 corpus weight
- finca
finca
17,705 corpus weight
- finial
finial
17,704 corpus weight
- Finucane
Finucane
17,703 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “filibustering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filibustering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #82,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “filibustering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
filibustering is uncommon English at frequency #82,294 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who filibusters.".
filibustering doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is filibustering, spelled F-I-L-I-B-U-S-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who filibusters.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how filibustering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No other interpretation could be put upon two of his most notorious filibusterings: […]
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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