abseiling
"abseiling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abseiling” is uncommon English (frequency #93,366 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,366
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process or act of abseiling.
Corpus desk
Index EN-abseiling · abseiling · English
abseiling · rank #93,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,366
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Abrahamson
Nearest frequency peer: Abrahamson (-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 “abseiling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Abrahamson
Abrahamson
6,636 corpus weight
- abseiling
abseiling
6,635 corpus weight
- acclimatiza…
acclimatization
6,634 corpus weight
- Achaemenid
Achaemenid
6,633 corpus weight
- acrylamide
acrylamide
6,632 corpus weight
- acrylonitri…
acrylonitrile
6,631 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “abseiling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abseiling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “abseiling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
abseiling is uncommon English at frequency #93,366 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The process or act of abseiling.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abseiling, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is abseiling, spelled A-B-S-E-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The process or act of abseiling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abseiling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He pictured the abseiling, literally a flight down the mountain on the doubled cord of his long rope, and he thought that those hours speeding down the cliffs would be the finest of his life.
Greenpeace offers its supporters the chance to fund brave and glamorous adventures (inflatables pitted against whalers; abseilings against smokestacks), and in exchange to wear something very like the medieval pilgrim's token: to put a rainbow sticker in their car windows.
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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