shouldering
"shouldering" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shouldering” is uncommon English (frequency #64,000 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,000
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shouldering · shouldering · English
shouldering · rank #64,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,000
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shor
Nearest frequency peer: shor (-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 “shouldering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shimmery
shimmery
36,005 corpus weight
- shod
shod
36,003 corpus weight
- shor
shor
36,002 corpus weight
- shouldering
shouldering
36,001 corpus weight
- shoveled
shoveled
36,000 corpus weight
- Sikorski
Sikorski
35,998 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shouldering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shouldering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shouldering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shouldering is uncommon English at frequency #64,000 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
shouldering has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is shouldering, spelled S-H-O-U-L-D-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
- 2The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket.
- 3A flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim.
- 4The rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shouldering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin Our whole force was mustered and kept constantly on the alert; but, though there may have been something of discourtesy in the occasional shoulderings and hustlings that enforced the police of the ship, things went on good-humouredly.
[…] at the Jefferson Memorial or the Statue of Liberty, amid the noisy presence and restless shoulderings of other tourists.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).