absconding
"absconding" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“absconding” is an uncommon English word, ranked #73,839 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #73,839
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An instance in which someone absconds.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | absconding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “absconding” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for absconding is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #73,839 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An instance in which someone absconds.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for absconding, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is absconding, spelled A-B-S-C-O-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An instance in which someone absconds.
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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Using “absconding”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-B-S-C-O-N-D-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.