annulling
/əˈnʌlɪŋ/
"annulling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“annulling” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of annul
Corpus desk
Index EN-annulling · annulling · English
annulling · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | annulling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈnʌlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “annulling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
annulling is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈnʌlɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of annul".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for annulling, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is annulling, spelled A-N-N-U-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of annul
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.