guttering
"guttering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guttering” is uncommon English (frequency #81,380 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,380
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - flickering and about to be extinguished
Corpus desk
Index EN-guttering · guttering · English
guttering · rank #81,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,380
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guptill
Nearest frequency peer: Guptill (-2 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 “guttering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gratefulness
gratefulness
18,627 corpus weight
- gravitation…
gravitationally
18,626 corpus weight
- Greyson
Greyson
18,625 corpus weight
- Guptill
Guptill
18,623 corpus weight
- guttering
guttering
18,621 corpus weight
- Hanke
Hanke
18,615 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guttering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guttering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guttering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guttering is uncommon English at frequency #81,380 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "flickering and about to be extinguished".
guttering has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 guttering, spelled G-U-T-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1flickering and about to be extinguished
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guttering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen cold Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you, Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
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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