ambushing
/ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/
"ambushing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ambushing” is an uncommon English word, ranked #67,214 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #67,214
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of ambush
| 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) |
Where “ambushing” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for ambushing is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #67,214 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “ambushing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-M-B-U-S-H-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.