glimmering
"glimmering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glimmering” is uncommon English (frequency #70,701 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,701
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A glimmer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-glimmering · glimmering · English
glimmering · rank #70,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,701
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Glengarry
Nearest frequency peer: Glengarry (-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 “glimmering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gigging
gigging
29,304 corpus weight
- gingivitis
gingivitis
29,303 corpus weight
- Glengarry
Glengarry
29,301 corpus weight
- glimmering
glimmering
29,300 corpus weight
- glisten
glisten
29,299 corpus weight
- glutinous
glutinous
29,296 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “glimmering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glimmering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glimmering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glimmering is uncommon English at frequency #70,701 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A glimmer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for glimmering in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is glimmering, spelled G-L-I-M-M-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A glimmer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glimmering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The pale, chill glimmering of earliest morning was faint in the east, from which the clouds were slowly breaking; there was just light enough to enable her to find her way.
When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her. Moreover, from her earliest days the bairn had some glimmerings of grace.
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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