talky
"talky" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“talky” is uncommon English (frequency #89,973 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,973
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Talkative or loquacious
Corpus desk
Index EN-talky · talky · English
talky · rank #89,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,973
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Takano
Nearest frequency peer: Takano (-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 “talky”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- svengali
svengali
10,031 corpus weight
- Takano
Takano
10,029 corpus weight
- talky
talky
10,028 corpus weight
- Tallman
Tallman
10,027 corpus weight
- tanuki
tanuki
10,025 corpus weight
- targum
targum
10,024 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “talky” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | talky |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “talky” in English
Rare enough to double-check
talky is uncommon English at frequency #89,973 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
talky doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 talk + -y. The correct English form is talky, spelled T-A-L-K-Y.
Definition
- 1Talkative or loquacious
- 2Containing a great deal of dialogue or talking in general
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how talky appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is not a talky film, and there are many scenes in which all the power emanates from visual images.
It was a pleasant enough presentation, if talkier than strictly necessary.
Etymology
From talk + -y.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).