wildling
"wildling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wildling” is uncommon English (frequency #76,469 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,469
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A wild, i.e. not cultivated, plant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wildling · wildling · English
wildling · rank #76,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,469
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wonderfull
Nearest frequency peer: wonderfull (+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 “wildling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- whiles
whiles
23,536 corpus weight
- wildling
wildling
23,532 corpus weight
- wonderfull
wonderfull
23,530 corpus weight
- woodshed
woodshed
23,529 corpus weight
- Woonsocket
Woonsocket
23,527 corpus weight
- workmanlike
workmanlike
23,526 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wildling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wildling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wildling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wildling is uncommon English at frequency #76,469 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wildling, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wild + -ling (“descendant”); cognate with Dutch (not synonymous) wildeling. The correct English form is wildling, spelled W-I-L-D-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A wild, i.e. not cultivated, plant.
- 2A wild animal.
Etymology
From wild + -ling (“descendant”); cognate with Dutch (not synonymous) wildeling.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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