squiggly
/ˈskwɪɡli/
"squiggly" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“squiggly” is uncommon English (frequency #72,786 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,786
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not straight; wavy and irregular.
Corpus desk
Index EN-squiggly · squiggly · English
squiggly · rank #72,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,786
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spie
Nearest frequency peer: spie (-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 “squiggly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- spendthrift
spendthrift
27,218 corpus weight
- Spey
Spey
27,217 corpus weight
- spie
spie
27,216 corpus weight
- squiggly
squiggly
27,215 corpus weight
- steelmaking
steelmaking
27,213 corpus weight
- Stenhouse
Stenhouse
27,212 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “squiggly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | squiggly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈskwɪɡli/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “squiggly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
squiggly is uncommon English at frequency #72,786 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈskwɪɡli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not straight; wavy and irregular.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for squiggly, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From squiggle + -y. The correct English form is squiggly, spelled S-Q-U-I-G-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Not straight; wavy and irregular.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how squiggly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She didn't have a ruler, so she drew a squiggly line to highlight the main points.
My first memories of eating are bowls of squiggly pasta with red sauce and lots of white cheese.
Etymology
From squiggle + -y.
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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