tangling
"tangling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tangling” is uncommon English (frequency #70,321 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,321
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tangled structure.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tangling · tangling · English
tangling · rank #70,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,321
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Taney
Nearest frequency peer: Taney (-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 “tangling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Takata
Takata
29,684 corpus weight
- taluk
taluk
29,683 corpus weight
- Taney
Taney
29,681 corpus weight
- tangling
tangling
29,680 corpus weight
- telegraphic
telegraphic
29,677 corpus weight
- Tertullian
Tertullian
29,676 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tangling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tangling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tangling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tangling is uncommon English at frequency #70,321 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tangled structure.".
tangling doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is tangling, spelled T-A-N-G-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A tangled structure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tangling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the thorny tanglings of the wood
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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