shuttling
"shuttling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shuttling” is uncommon English (frequency #66,291 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,291
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is shuttled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shuttling · shuttling · English
shuttling · rank #66,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,291
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Shoah
Nearest frequency peer: Shoah (-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 “shuttling”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Shedd
Shedd
33,716 corpus weight
- shimada
shimada
33,713 corpus weight
- Shoah
Shoah
33,711 corpus weight
- shuttling
shuttling
33,710 corpus weight
- Sirte
Sirte
33,707 corpus weight
- Sisyphus
Sisyphus
33,706 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shuttling” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shuttling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shuttling” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shuttling is uncommon English at frequency #66,291 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is shuttled.".
shuttling doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is shuttling, spelled S-H-U-T-T-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is shuttled.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shuttling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Incessant shuttlings between one domain and the other serve to stabilize the analogies, and to give them a realistic or down-to-earth basis.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Data Source
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.