glitchy
/ˈɡlɪt͡ʃi/
"glitchy" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glitchy” is uncommon English (frequency #65,148 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,148
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prone to glitches.
Corpus desk
Index EN-glitchy · glitchy · English
glitchy · rank #65,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,148
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gnosis
Nearest frequency peer: gnosis (+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 “glitchy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gingival
gingival
34,858 corpus weight
- Ginza
Ginza
34,857 corpus weight
- Girona
Girona
34,856 corpus weight
- glitchy
glitchy
34,853 corpus weight
- gnosis
gnosis
34,852 corpus weight
- goyal
goyal
34,848 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “glitchy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glitchy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɡlɪt͡ʃi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glitchy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glitchy is uncommon English at frequency #65,148 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈɡlɪt͡ʃi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for glitchy, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From glitch + -y. The correct English form is glitchy, spelled G-L-I-T-C-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Prone to glitches.
- 2Characteristic of glitch or error.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glitchy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a glitchy computer
The output of a multiplexer can also be glitchy due to the propagation of glitches from the data and select inputs.
Etymology
From glitch + -y.
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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