stammering
"stammering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stammering” is uncommon English (frequency #58,386 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,386
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who stammers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stammering · stammering · English
stammering · rank #58,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,386
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stache
Nearest frequency peer: stache (-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 “stammering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stabler
stabler
41,617 corpus weight
- stache
stache
41,616 corpus weight
- stammering
stammering
41,615 corpus weight
- startlingly
startlingly
41,614 corpus weight
- Steinmetz
Steinmetz
41,613 corpus weight
- strafing
strafing
41,612 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stammering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stammering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stammering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stammering is uncommon English at frequency #58,386 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who stammers.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stammering in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is stammering, spelled S-T-A-M-M-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who stammers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stammering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We could not understand his inarticulate stammerings.
At that point, humanity crosses another threshold, miniaturizes its universe into symbolic form, and takes a toddling step toward iconography, writing, and the first stammerings of calendrical notation and mathematics.
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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