slinking
"slinking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slinking” is uncommon English (frequency #90,997 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,997
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who slinks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-slinking · slinking · English
slinking · rank #90,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,997
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slaty
Nearest frequency peer: slaty (-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 “slinking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sigmoid
sigmoid
9,010 corpus weight
- signboard
signboard
9,009 corpus weight
- skipjack
skipjack
9,007 corpus weight
- slaty
slaty
9,005 corpus weight
- slinking
slinking
9,004 corpus weight
- Smet
Smet
9,000 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “slinking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slinking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “slinking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
slinking is uncommon English at frequency #90,997 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who slinks.".
No misspelling variants are generated for slinking in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is slinking, spelled S-L-I-N-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who slinks.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slinking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[A]t midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed.
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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