abounding
/əˈbaʊn.dɪŋ/
"abounding" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abounding” is uncommon English (frequency #53,978 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,978
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ample, plenty, abundant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-abounding · abounding · English
abounding · rank #53,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,978
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Abhishek
Nearest frequency peer: Abhishek (-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 “abounding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abhishek
Abhishek
46,024 corpus weight
- abounding
abounding
46,023 corpus weight
- Abrahamic
Abrahamic
46,022 corpus weight
- acker
acker
46,020 corpus weight
- acquiesce
acquiesce
46,019 corpus weight
- acyl
acyl
46,018 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “abounding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abounding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈbaʊn.dɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “abounding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
abounding is uncommon English at frequency #53,978 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /əˈbaʊn.dɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ample, plenty, abundant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for abounding in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is abounding, spelled A-B-O-U-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Ample, plenty, abundant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abounding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
abounding food
an abounding stream
This word in other languages
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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