spine-tingling
"spine-tingling" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spine-tingling” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Scary, exciting or exhilarating.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spine-tingling · spine-tingling · English
spine-tingling · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spine-tingling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spine-tingling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spine-tingling is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Scary, exciting or exhilarating.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spine-tingling, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is spine-tingling, spelled S-P-I-N-E---T-I-N-G-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Scary, exciting or exhilarating.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spine-tingling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Inside the ground, they saw parachutists land on the Nursery Ground before the spine-tingling spectacle of the national anthems.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.