writting
"writting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“writting” is uncommon English (frequency #75,565 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,565
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of writing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-writting · writting · English
writting · rank #75,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,565
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wushu
Nearest frequency peer: wushu (+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 “writting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- woodblock
woodblock
24,439 corpus weight
- writting
writting
24,436 corpus weight
- wushu
wushu
24,434 corpus weight
- Wyckoff
Wyckoff
24,433 corpus weight
- yaks
yaks
24,429 corpus weight
- yola
yola
24,426 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “writting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | writting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “writting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
writting is uncommon English at frequency #75,565 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of writing.".
writting has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 writting, spelled W-R-I-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of writing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how writting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Theſe differences in one ſame language do comonly grow among the common people, and ſomtimes vpon the parents mitiating the ill pronountiation of their young childeren, and of ill pronountiation, laſtly enſueth ill writting.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).