shouty
"shouty" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shouty” is uncommon English (frequency #78,122 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,122
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Characterized by shouting; prone to shouting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shouty · shouty · English
shouty · rank #78,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,122
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shroff
Nearest frequency peer: shroff (+1 rank slots)
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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 “shouty”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Secaucus
Secaucus
21,886 corpus weight
- Shafi
Shafi
21,884 corpus weight
- shiitake
shiitake
21,882 corpus weight
- shouty
shouty
21,879 corpus weight
- shroff
shroff
21,878 corpus weight
- Sicilia
Sicilia
21,873 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shouty” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shouty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shouty” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shouty is uncommon English at frequency #78,122 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for shouty in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shout + -y. The correct English form is shouty, spelled S-H-O-U-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Characterized by shouting; prone to shouting.
- 2Harsh and strident.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shouty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.
That is the key - understanding the issues and saying things that accurately reflect the passengers' insight, rather than being just another of the shouty voices from the sidelines.
Etymology
From shout + -y.
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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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.