trilling
"trilling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trilling” is uncommon English (frequency #61,875 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,875
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The production of a trill sound.
Corpus desk
Index EN-trilling · trilling · English
trilling · rank #61,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,875
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH transmissible
Nearest frequency peer: transmissible (-2 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 “trilling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- torpor
torpor
38,131 corpus weight
- traceability
traceability
38,130 corpus weight
- transmissib…
transmissible
38,128 corpus weight
- trilling
trilling
38,126 corpus weight
- trucked
trucked
38,124 corpus weight
- Truckee
Truckee
38,123 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “trilling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trilling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “trilling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
trilling is uncommon English at frequency #61,875 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The production of a trill sound.".
trilling doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is trilling, spelled T-R-I-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The production of a trill sound.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trilling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was pretty close quarters, but I had conversed with her at such length during the nest-building time, that she knew my voice and soon began to answer me in low trillings — trillings that could scarcely be heard — and turn her head to look at me in a friendly way.
During the singing act these wing surfaces are moved rapidly on each other, producing the familiar strident trillings of midsummer.
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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