panelling
/ˈpænəlɪŋ/
"panelling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“panelling” is uncommon English (frequency #51,900 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,900
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The panels with which a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.
Corpus desk
Index EN-panelling · panelling · English
panelling · rank #51,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,900
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH paleontologist
Nearest frequency peer: paleontologist (-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 “panelling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- overgrowth
overgrowth
48,106 corpus weight
- overshoot
overshoot
48,105 corpus weight
- OWO
OWO
48,104 corpus weight
- paleontolog…
paleontologist
48,102 corpus weight
- panelling
panelling
48,101 corpus weight
- papillon
papillon
48,099 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “panelling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panelling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpænəlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “panelling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
panelling is uncommon English at frequency #51,900 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpænəlɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The panels with which a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.".
Zero misspellings are on record for panelling in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is panelling, spelled P-A-N-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The panels with which a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panelling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
This word in other languages
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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