flinty
/ˈflɪnti/
"flinty" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flinty” is uncommon English (frequency #92,615 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,615
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flinty · flinty · English
flinty · rank #92,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,615
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flippy
Nearest frequency peer: flippy (+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 “flinty”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- flambeau
flambeau
7,389 corpus weight
- flavonoid
flavonoid
7,388 corpus weight
- flinty
flinty
7,386 corpus weight
- flippy
flippy
7,385 corpus weight
- folklife
folklife
7,384 corpus weight
- forensically
forensically
7,383 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “flinty” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flinty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈflɪnti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flinty” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flinty is uncommon English at frequency #92,615 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈflɪnti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for flinty in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flint + -y. The correct English form is flinty, spelled F-L-I-N-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
- 2Siliceous (including basanite).
- 3Showing a lack of emotion.
- 4Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flinty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppety clop, cloppety clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance.
flinty slate
Etymology
From flint + -y.
This word in other languages
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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