ticky
"ticky" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ticky” is uncommon English (frequency #86,853 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,853
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - infested with ticks (the tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina).
Corpus desk
Index EN-ticky · ticky · English
ticky · rank #86,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,853
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tibbetts
Nearest frequency peer: Tibbetts (-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 “ticky”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tey
tey
13,155 corpus weight
- thal
thal
13,153 corpus weight
- thingie
thingie
13,151 corpus weight
- Tibbetts
Tibbetts
13,149 corpus weight
- ticky
ticky
13,148 corpus weight
- toiletry
toiletry
13,143 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ticky” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ticky |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ticky” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ticky is uncommon English at frequency #86,853 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "infested with ticks (the tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ticky, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tick + -y. The correct English form is ticky, spelled T-I-C-K-Y.
Definition
- 1infested with ticks (the tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ticky appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ticky cows should be kept well separated to avoid contamination.
Etymology
From tick + -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).