untiring
"untiring" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“untiring” is uncommon English (frequency #85,898 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,898
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not able to be tired; inexhaustible.
Corpus desk
Index EN-untiring · untiring · English
untiring · rank #85,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,898
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH unspecific
Nearest frequency peer: unspecific (-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 “untiring”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unmanly
unmanly
14,106 corpus weight
- unquiet
unquiet
14,105 corpus weight
- unspecific
unspecific
14,104 corpus weight
- untiring
untiring
14,103 corpus weight
- untreatable
untreatable
14,102 corpus weight
- Vaccaro
Vaccaro
14,100 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “untiring” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | untiring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “untiring” in English
Rare enough to double-check
untiring is uncommon English at frequency #85,898 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for untiring in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From un- + tiring. The correct English form is untiring, spelled U-N-T-I-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Not able to be tired; inexhaustible.
- 2Unfailing; resolute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how untiring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A generation ago Chien-ch'ang was perhaps the least known part of all China to the outside world. About the middle of the thirteenth century the Mongol, Kublai Khan, acting as general of the forces of his brother, Genghis Khan, went through here to the conquest of Tali, then an independent kingdom in the southwest, and the untiring Venetian following in h…
Etymology
From un- + tiring.
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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