foretelling
"foretelling" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foretelling” is uncommon English (frequency #91,519 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,519
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - prediction
Corpus desk
Index EN-foretelling · foretelling · English
foretelling · rank #91,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,519
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH forewarning
Nearest frequency peer: forewarning (+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 “foretelling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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8,482 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “foretelling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foretelling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foretelling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foretelling is uncommon English at frequency #91,519 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "prediction".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foretelling, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is foretelling, spelled F-O-R-E-T-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
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Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foretelling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
foretellings of doom
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).