glowering
"glowering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glowering” is uncommon English (frequency #93,746 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,746
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of giving a glower.
Corpus desk
Index EN-glowering · glowering · English
glowering · rank #93,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,746
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Goda
Nearest frequency peer: Goda (+1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “glowering”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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6,258 corpus weight
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6,257 corpus weight
- glowering
glowering
6,255 corpus weight
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6,254 corpus weight
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godman
6,253 corpus weight
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golde
6,252 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “glowering” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glowering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glowering” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
glowering is uncommon English at frequency #93,746 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of giving a glower.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for glowering 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is glowering, spelled G-L-O-W-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of giving a glower.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glowering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But after much whispering, cross looks from Caroline and Jane, warning glowerings from John, Sam was not chosen. He was left unselected and Mrs Firth told Sam sharply to go into Adam's team 'to make even numbers'.
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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