annihilating
"annihilating" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“annihilating” is uncommon English (frequency #59,855 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,855
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causing annihilation; devastating.
Corpus desk
Index EN-annihilating · annihilating · English
annihilating · rank #59,855 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,855
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH angioplasty
Nearest frequency peer: angioplasty (-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 “annihilating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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aleph
40,149 corpus weight
- angioplasty
angioplasty
40,147 corpus weight
- annihilating
annihilating
40,146 corpus weight
- antagonizing
antagonizing
40,145 corpus weight
- Anthea
Anthea
40,144 corpus weight
- anticipatory
anticipatory
40,143 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “annihilating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | annihilating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “annihilating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
annihilating is uncommon English at frequency #59,855 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Causing annihilation; devastating.".
No misspelling variants are generated for annihilating in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is annihilating, spelled A-N-N-I-H-I-L-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Causing annihilation; devastating.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how annihilating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Doctor received a very unfriendly, and the godson, who stood as if turned to stone, a very annihilating glance.
The thought of time, to me at least, is a very overpowering and often a very annihilating one for energy: Time rushing on, unbroken, irresistible, hurrying the worlds and the ages into being, and out of it, and making our 'noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal Silence.'
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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