waddling
"waddling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“waddling” is uncommon English (frequency #73,787 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,787
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who waddles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-waddling · waddling · English
waddling · rank #73,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,787
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH VTOL
Nearest frequency peer: VTOL (-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 “waddling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Vogler
Vogler
26,220 corpus weight
- voltaic
voltaic
26,218 corpus weight
- VTOL
VTOL
26,216 corpus weight
- waddling
waddling
26,214 corpus weight
- warhorse
warhorse
26,211 corpus weight
- wavefront
wavefront
26,210 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “waddling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | waddling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “waddling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
waddling is uncommon English at frequency #73,787 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who waddles.".
Zero misspellings are on record for waddling in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is waddling, spelled W-A-D-D-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who waddles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how waddling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the dastardly man who insolently compared the flights of a swan to the waddlings of the domestic duck
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).