aping
/ˈeɪ.pɪŋ/
"aping" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aping” is uncommon English (frequency #84,989 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,989
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of ape
Corpus desk
Index EN-aping · aping · English
aping · rank #84,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,989
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Antara
Nearest frequency peer: Antara (-3 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 “aping”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Anoka
Anoka
15,017 corpus weight
- Antananarivo
Antananarivo
15,016 corpus weight
- Antara
Antara
15,015 corpus weight
- aping
aping
15,012 corpus weight
- Arata
Arata
15,009 corpus weight
- Arnab
Arnab
15,004 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aping” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈeɪ.pɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aping” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aping is uncommon English at frequency #84,989 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈeɪ.pɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of ape".
Zero misspellings are on record for aping in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is aping, spelled A-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of ape
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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