parroting
"parroting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parroting” is uncommon English (frequency #77,069 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,069
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mindless repetition of words or ideas
Corpus desk
Index EN-parroting · parroting · English
parroting · rank #77,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,069
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH parallelogram
Nearest frequency peer: parallelogram (-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 “parroting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- palaver
palaver
22,936 corpus weight
- paling
paling
22,935 corpus weight
- parallelogr…
parallelogram
22,933 corpus weight
- parroting
parroting
22,932 corpus weight
- parsimonious
parsimonious
22,931 corpus weight
- pathe
pathe
22,927 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “parroting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parroting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parroting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parroting is uncommon English at frequency #77,069 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mindless repetition of words or ideas".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for parroting, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 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 parroting, spelled P-A-R-R-O-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1mindless repetition of words or ideas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how parroting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The discriminatory sense of moral position denotes a subclass of anthropological morality by contrasting a sincere moral conviction about proper conduct with prejudices, rationalizations, parrotings of others, etc.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).