shapeshifting
"shapeshifting" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shapeshifting” is uncommon English (frequency #67,038 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,038
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A change in shape; a transformation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shapeshifting · shapeshifting · English
shapeshifting · rank #67,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,038
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shawarma
Nearest frequency peer: shawarma (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shapeshifting”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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32,963 corpus weight
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32,962 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “shapeshifting” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shapeshifting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #67,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shapeshifting” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shapeshifting is uncommon English at frequency #67,038 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A change in shape; a transformation.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shapeshifting, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is shapeshifting, spelled S-H-A-P-E-S-H-I-F-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A change in shape; a transformation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shapeshifting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We have to prepare ourselves, make shapeshiftings in consciousness to get there. Then we are the Grail as the prepared, receptive space waiting for the Christ Light.
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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