slurring
"slurring" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slurring” is uncommon English (frequency #57,717 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,717
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A slur mark in music.
Corpus desk
Index EN-slurring · slurring · English
slurring · rank #57,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,717
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH smokehouse
Nearest frequency peer: smokehouse (+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 “slurring”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sigrid
Sigrid
42,290 corpus weight
- singe
singe
42,288 corpus weight
- skateboarder
skateboarder
42,287 corpus weight
- slurring
slurring
42,284 corpus weight
- smokehouse
smokehouse
42,283 corpus weight
- soonest
soonest
42,278 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “slurring” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slurring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “slurring” in English
Rare enough to double-check
slurring is uncommon English at frequency #57,717 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
slurring has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is slurring, spelled S-L-U-R-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A slur mark in music.
- 2An instance of slurring in speech, heartbeat, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slurring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are, for instance, those puzzling slurrings and staccato markings that are scattered through the primary sources of the organ music.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).