slanting
/ˈslæntɪŋ/
"slanting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slanting” is uncommon English (frequency #71,107 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,107
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.
Corpus desk
Index EN-slanting · slanting · English
slanting · rank #71,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,107
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH skylab
Nearest frequency peer: skylab (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “slanting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shoeless
shoeless
28,900 corpus weight
- Silvana
Silvana
28,898 corpus weight
- Sinan
Sinan
28,897 corpus weight
- skylab
skylab
28,895 corpus weight
- slanting
slanting
28,894 corpus weight
- sleeker
sleeker
28,892 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “slanting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slanting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈslæntɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “slanting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
slanting is uncommon English at frequency #71,107 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈslæntɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for slanting in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is slanting, spelled S-L-A-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.
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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