roosting
"roosting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“roosting” is uncommon English (frequency #60,431 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,431
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The place or period where a creature roosts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roosting · roosting · English
roosting · rank #60,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,431
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rollicking
Nearest frequency peer: rollicking (-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 “roosting”
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 “roosting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roosting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “roosting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
roosting is uncommon English at frequency #60,431 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The place or period where a creature roosts.".
Zero misspellings are on record for roosting in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is roosting, spelled R-O-O-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The place or period where a creature roosts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roosting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Several years ago starlings took over the residential sections for their nightly roostings during the Summer months.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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