gratings
/ˈɡɹeɪtɪŋz/
"gratings" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gratings” is uncommon English (frequency #59,426 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,426
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of grating
Corpus desk
Index EN-gratings · gratings · English
gratings · rank #59,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gradation
Nearest frequency peer: gradation (-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 “gratings”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Gosport
Gosport
40,577 corpus weight
- gradation
gradation
40,576 corpus weight
- gratings
gratings
40,575 corpus weight
- Grimaldi
Grimaldi
40,574 corpus weight
- Guinevere
Guinevere
40,572 corpus weight
- Guizhou
Guizhou
40,571 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “gratings” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gratings |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹeɪtɪŋz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gratings” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gratings is uncommon English at frequency #59,426 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɹeɪtɪŋz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of grating".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gratings, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is gratings, spelled G-R-A-T-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1plural of grating
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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