rollicking
"rollicking" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rollicking” is uncommon English (frequency #60,430 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,430
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A scolding, a bollocking.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rollicking · rollicking · English
rollicking · rank #60,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,430
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rockwood
Nearest frequency peer: rockwood (-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 “rollicking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- robustly
robustly
39,573 corpus weight
- rockwood
rockwood
39,572 corpus weight
- rollicking
rollicking
39,571 corpus weight
- roosting
roosting
39,570 corpus weight
- Rothenberg
Rothenberg
39,569 corpus weight
- roto
roto
39,568 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rollicking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rollicking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rollicking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rollicking is uncommon English at frequency #60,430 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A scolding, a bollocking.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rollicking in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is rollicking, spelled R-O-L-L-I-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A scolding, a bollocking.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rollicking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.
He can give someone a right rollicking but it comes over as advice.
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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