gangling
"gangling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gangling” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gangling · gangling · English
gangling · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gangling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gangling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gangling is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gangling in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare Swedish gänglig. The correct English form is gangling, spelled G-A-N-G-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gangling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A gangling teenager.
Etymology
Perhaps from gangle, from the dialectal gang (“to go, to walk, to proceed”). Compare Swedish gänglig.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.