flouting
/ˈflaʊtɪŋ/
"flouting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flouting” is uncommon English (frequency #73,190 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,190
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of flout
Corpus desk
Index EN-flouting · flouting · English
flouting · rank #73,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,190
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH floodwater
Nearest frequency peer: floodwater (-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 “flouting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Flavin
Flavin
26,815 corpus weight
- fleshlight
fleshlight
26,813 corpus weight
- floodwater
floodwater
26,812 corpus weight
- flouting
flouting
26,811 corpus weight
- flowy
flowy
26,810 corpus weight
- folkloric
folkloric
26,808 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “flouting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flouting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈflaʊtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flouting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flouting is uncommon English at frequency #73,190 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈflaʊtɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of flout".
No misspelling variants are generated for flouting in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is flouting, spelled F-L-O-U-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of flout
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "flouting"?
What does "flouting" mean?
How do you pronounce "flouting"?
What language does "flouting" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flouting", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).