throaty
/ˈθɹəʊti/
"throaty" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“throaty” is uncommon English (frequency #71,974 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,974
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-throaty · throaty · English
throaty · rank #71,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,974
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH thrombocytope…
Nearest frequency peer: thrombocytopenia (+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 “throaty”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- telemarketer
telemarketer
28,031 corpus weight
- teletype
teletype
28,030 corpus weight
- throaty
throaty
28,027 corpus weight
- thrombocyto…
thrombocytopenia
28,026 corpus weight
- thunderstru…
thunderstruck
28,025 corpus weight
- Titusville
Titusville
28,023 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “throaty” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | throaty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈθɹəʊti/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “throaty” in English
Rare enough to double-check
throaty is uncommon English at frequency #71,974 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈθɹəʊti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for throaty in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From throat + -y. The correct English form is throaty, spelled T-H-R-O-A-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
- 2Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck. (of livestock or dogs)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how throaty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A throaty cough.
The concluſion of this rambling Letter ſhall be a rhime of certain hard throary^([sic – meaning throaty]) Words which I was taught lately, and they are accounted the difficulteſt in all the whole Caſtilian Language, inſomuch that he who is able to pronounce them, is accounted Buen Romanciſta, a good ſpeaker of Spaniſh: […]
Etymology
From throat + -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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