ambushing
/ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/
"ambushing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ambushing” is uncommon English (frequency #67,214 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,214
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of ambush
Corpus desk
Index EN-ambushing · ambushing · English
ambushing · rank #67,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,214
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH altarpiece
Nearest frequency peer: altarpiece (-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 “ambushing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- akuma
akuma
32,792 corpus weight
- altarpiece
altarpiece
32,788 corpus weight
- ambushing
ambushing
32,787 corpus weight
- Angeline
Angeline
32,785 corpus weight
- annotate
annotate
32,784 corpus weight
- anther
anther
32,783 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ambushing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambushing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ambushing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ambushing is uncommon English at frequency #67,214 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of ambush".
ambushing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is ambushing, spelled A-M-B-U-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of ambush
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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