spluttering
/ˈsplʌtəɹɪŋ/
"spluttering" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spluttering” is uncommon English (frequency #83,776 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,776
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gerund of splutter: the act of one who splutters.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spluttering · spluttering · English
spluttering · rank #83,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,776
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH splashdown
Nearest frequency peer: splashdown (-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 “spluttering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- soundless
soundless
16,230 corpus weight
- souther
souther
16,229 corpus weight
- splashdown
splashdown
16,226 corpus weight
- spluttering
spluttering
16,225 corpus weight
- stagecraft
stagecraft
16,224 corpus weight
- stela
stela
16,223 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spluttering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spluttering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsplʌtəɹɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spluttering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spluttering is uncommon English at frequency #83,776 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsplʌtəɹɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gerund of splutter: the act of one who splutters.".
Zero misspellings are on record for spluttering in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From splutter + -ing. The correct English form is spluttering, spelled S-P-L-U-T-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1gerund of splutter: the act of one who splutters.
Etymology
From splutter + -ing.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).