sintering
"sintering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sintering” is uncommon English (frequency #64,007 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,007
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A process in which the particles of a powder are welded together by pressure and heating to a temperature below its melting point.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sintering · sintering · English
sintering · rank #64,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,007
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Simferopol
Nearest frequency peer: Simferopol (-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 “sintering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sikorski
Sikorski
35,998 corpus weight
- silverback
silverback
35,997 corpus weight
- Simferopol
Simferopol
35,996 corpus weight
- sintering
sintering
35,994 corpus weight
- skein
skein
35,992 corpus weight
- skilling
skilling
35,991 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sintering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sintering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sintering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sintering is uncommon English at frequency #64,007 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A process in which the particles of a powder are welded together by pressure and heating to a temperature below its melting point.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sintering, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is sintering, spelled S-I-N-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A process in which the particles of a powder are welded together by pressure and heating to a temperature below its melting point.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sintering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The idea was to build a thick pavement of high-density dry snow, allowing it to "age-harden" like concrete. The latter process, technically known as sintering, depends on the progressive formation of intergranular bonds, mainly by temperature-dependent vapor diffusion.
This word in other languages
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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