wrinkling
"wrinkling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wrinkling” is uncommon English (frequency #67,967 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,967
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pattern of wrinkles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wrinkling · wrinkling · English
wrinkling · rank #67,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,967
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wringer
Nearest frequency peer: wringer (-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 “wrinkling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- workbooks
workbooks
32,038 corpus weight
- wraiths
wraiths
32,036 corpus weight
- wringer
wringer
32,035 corpus weight
- wrinkling
wrinkling
32,034 corpus weight
- writeup
writeup
32,033 corpus weight
- xiong
xiong
32,032 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wrinkling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wrinkling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wrinkling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wrinkling is uncommon English at frequency #67,967 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for wrinkling in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is wrinkling, spelled W-R-I-N-K-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A pattern of wrinkles.
- 2The act of wrinkling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wrinkling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The character of these wrinklings, when seen on the flat of the beds, forbids the idea that they are due to end on compression[…]
Would she be able to appreciate the subtlety of their advances, if they made any; those little twitches and twists of the lips, those narrowings and rollings of the eye, those wrinklings of the speculative temple, that shrugging of an eyebrow at play?
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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