appetising
"appetising" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“appetising” is uncommon English (frequency #91,237 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,237
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of appetizing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-appetising · appetising · English
appetising · rank #91,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,237
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anthropomorph…
Nearest frequency peer: anthropomorphism (-4 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 “appetising”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Anelka
Anelka
8,773 corpus weight
- anthropomet…
anthropometric
8,769 corpus weight
- anthropomor…
anthropomorphism
8,768 corpus weight
- appetising
appetising
8,764 corpus weight
- aragonite
aragonite
8,760 corpus weight
- Armisen
Armisen
8,756 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “appetising” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appetising |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “appetising” in English
Rare enough to double-check
appetising is uncommon English at frequency #91,237 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of appetizing.".
No misspelling variants are generated for appetising in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is appetising, spelled A-P-P-E-T-I-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of appetizing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appetising appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plain and unexciting, perhaps, but they are solid, well cooked, appetising and filling, and moreover cheap.
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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