nutting
/ˈnʌtɪŋ/
"nutting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nutting” is uncommon English (frequency #53,736 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,736
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of nut
Corpus desk
Index EN-nutting · nutting · English
nutting · rank #53,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,736
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH noisily
Nearest frequency peer: noisily (-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 “nutting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- neuroimaging
neuroimaging
46,273 corpus weight
- Nicodemus
Nicodemus
46,271 corpus weight
- Nikko
Nikko
46,270 corpus weight
- noisily
noisily
46,267 corpus weight
- nutting
nutting
46,265 corpus weight
- Ogun
Ogun
46,259 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nutting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nutting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈnʌtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nutting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nutting is uncommon English at frequency #53,736 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈnʌtɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of nut".
nutting has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is nutting, spelled N-U-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of nut
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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