glitters
/ˈɡlɪtɚz/
"glitters" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glitters” is uncommon English (frequency #50,535 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,535
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of glitter
Corpus desk
Index EN-glitters · glitters · English
glitters · rank #50,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,535
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH GMB
Nearest frequency peer: GMB (+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 “glitters”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gape
gape
49,471 corpus weight
- Geraint
Geraint
49,469 corpus weight
- glitters
glitters
49,466 corpus weight
- GMB
GMB
49,465 corpus weight
- Gobi
Gobi
49,464 corpus weight
- grabber
grabber
49,461 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “glitters” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glitters |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɡlɪtɚz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glitters” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glitters is uncommon English at frequency #50,535 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɡlɪtɚz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of glitter".
No misspelling variants are generated for glitters in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is glitters, spelled G-L-I-T-T-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of glitter
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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