shuttering
"shuttering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shuttering” is uncommon English (frequency #79,057 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,057
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of closing something with shutters.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shuttering · shuttering · English
shuttering · rank #79,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,057
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shitpost
Nearest frequency peer: shitpost (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “shuttering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sheff
Sheff
20,950 corpus weight
- Shiga
Shiga
20,949 corpus weight
- shitpost
shitpost
20,946 corpus weight
- shuttering
shuttering
20,944 corpus weight
- Sisley
Sisley
20,942 corpus weight
- SLM
SLM
20,939 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shuttering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shuttering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shuttering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shuttering is uncommon English at frequency #79,057 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for shuttering in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is shuttering, spelled S-H-U-T-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of closing something with shutters.
- 2The winding down of a business, a publication, etc.
- 3Formwork.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shuttering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the long run, Marvel's B&W newsstand efforts outlasted the closing and shutterings of both Skywald and Warren's doors but the longest lived of their horror titles only lasted two years, from 1973–1975.
[I]n practice, small deformations will occur in the shell on striking the shuttering, or... alternatively, some small deformations are due to slightly imperfect placing of the original formwork.
Synonyms
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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