afflicting
"afflicting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“afflicting” is uncommon English (frequency #62,657 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,657
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An affliction.
Corpus desk
Index EN-afflicting · afflicting · English
afflicting · rank #62,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,657
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Advani
Nearest frequency peer: Advani (-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 “afflicting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abutment
abutment
37,349 corpus weight
- accusatory
accusatory
37,348 corpus weight
- Advani
Advani
37,346 corpus weight
- afflicting
afflicting
37,344 corpus weight
- Agron
Agron
37,341 corpus weight
- AJC
AJC
37,338 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “afflicting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afflicting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “afflicting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
afflicting is uncommon English at frequency #62,657 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An affliction.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for afflicting in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is afflicting, spelled A-F-F-L-I-C-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An affliction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how afflicting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And so usual a thing it is for gracious hearts to be humbled under the afflictings of God, that affliction is upon that score called humiliation.
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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