tingly
/ˈtɪŋɡli/
"tingly" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tingly” is uncommon English (frequency #53,913 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,913
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Producing or feeling tingles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tingly · tingly · English
tingly · rank #53,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,913
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tippy
Nearest frequency peer: tippy (+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 “tingly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Theophilus
Theophilus
46,092 corpus weight
- timbered
timbered
46,090 corpus weight
- tingly
tingly
46,088 corpus weight
- tippy
tippy
46,087 corpus weight
- tix
tix
46,086 corpus weight
- touchpad
touchpad
46,084 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tingly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tingly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈtɪŋɡli/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tingly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tingly is uncommon English at frequency #53,913 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈtɪŋɡli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Producing or feeling tingles.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tingly in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tingle + -y. The correct English form is tingly, spelled T-I-N-G-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Producing or feeling tingles.
Etymology
From tingle + -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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