stilling
"stilling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stilling” is uncommon English (frequency #98,753 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,753
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is made still.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stilling · stilling · English
stilling · rank #98,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,753
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH storify
Nearest frequency peer: storify (+3 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 “stilling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stabby
stabby
1,254 corpus weight
- Standley
Standley
1,253 corpus weight
- stilling
stilling
1,248 corpus weight
- storify
storify
1,245 corpus weight
- Storr
Storr
1,244 corpus weight
- straightedge
straightedge
1,243 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stilling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stilling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stilling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stilling is uncommon English at frequency #98,753 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is made still.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stilling in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is stilling, spelled S-T-I-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is made still.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stilling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rivette's interdiction on the tracking shot in Kapò contrasted with the double structure of arrests/stillings of image and spectator in Night and Fog served as an ethico-political talisman for all Daney's mature film criticism.
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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