shovelling
"shovelling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shovelling” is uncommon English (frequency #75,408 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,408
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is shovelled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shovelling · shovelling · English
shovelling · rank #75,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,408
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shepherdess
Nearest frequency peer: shepherdess (-2 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 “shovelling”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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shan't
24,597 corpus weight
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24,596 corpus weight
- shepherdess
shepherdess
24,595 corpus weight
- shovelling
shovelling
24,593 corpus weight
- sidenote
sidenote
24,591 corpus weight
- Siebert
Siebert
24,590 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shovelling” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shovelling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shovelling” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shovelling is uncommon English at frequency #75,408 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is shovelled.".
shovelling has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is shovelling, spelled S-H-O-V-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is shovelled.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shovelling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The latter is usually executed two spits deep, with two intermediate shovellings; but in the work in question, we should go down between three and four spits, without any shovellings.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.