trailblazing
"trailblazing" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trailblazing” is uncommon English (frequency #74,592 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,592
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.
Corpus desk
Index EN-trailblazing · trailblazing · English
trailblazing · rank #74,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,592
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tractable
Nearest frequency peer: tractable (-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 “trailblazing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tope
tope
25,416 corpus weight
- torii
torii
25,415 corpus weight
- tractable
tractable
25,410 corpus weight
- trailblazing
trailblazing
25,409 corpus weight
- transshipme…
transshipment
25,407 corpus weight
- triplex
triplex
25,403 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “trailblazing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trailblazing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #74,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “trailblazing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
trailblazing is uncommon English at frequency #74,592 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.".
Zero misspellings are on record for trailblazing in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From trail + blazing. The correct English form is trailblazing, spelled T-R-A-I-L-B-L-A-Z-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trailblazing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One can only wonder what led Rothstein to claim that Neville was such a trail-blazing pornographer.
The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
Etymology
From trail + blazing.
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).