scuttling
"scuttling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scuttling” is uncommon English (frequency #61,097 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,097
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The motion of one who scuttles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scuttling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scuttling” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
scuttling is uncommon English at frequency #61,097 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for scuttling, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is scuttling, spelled S-C-U-T-T-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The motion of one who scuttles.
- 2The act by which a vessel is scuttled.
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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Using “scuttling”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-C-U-T-T-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.