rip-roaring
"rip-roaring" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rip-roaring” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exciting, energetic, enthusiastic, with gusto.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rip-roaring · rip-roaring · English
rip-roaring · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rip-roaring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rip-roaring” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rip-roaring is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exciting, energetic, enthusiastic, with gusto.".
rip-roaring doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rip + roaring. The correct English form is rip-roaring, spelled R-I-P---R-O-A-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Exciting, energetic, enthusiastic, with gusto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rip-roaring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was a rip-roaring bar fight, until the cops broke it up.
The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny.
Etymology
From rip + roaring.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.