unfurling
"unfurling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“unfurling” is uncommon English (frequency #82,883 among 23,789 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,883
- frequency rank, English
- 23,789
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act by which something is unfurled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-unfurling · unfurling · English
unfurling · rank #82,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,883
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,789
- PHOTO-FINISH undirected
Nearest frequency peer: undirected (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “unfurling”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Türkiye
Türkiye
17,123 corpus weight
- undirected
undirected
17,119 corpus weight
- unfurling
unfurling
17,118 corpus weight
- unpardonable
unpardonable
17,115 corpus weight
- unpromising
unpromising
17,114 corpus weight
- unscrewed
unscrewed
17,113 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “unfurling” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unfurling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unfurling” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
unfurling is uncommon English at frequency #82,883 among 23,789 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is unfurled.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for unfurling, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is unfurling, spelled U-N-F-U-R-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is unfurled.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "unfurling", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.