appraising
/əˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/
"appraising" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“appraising” is uncommon English (frequency #72,092 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,092
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of appraise
Corpus desk
Index EN-appraising · appraising · English
appraising · rank #72,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,092
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anyhoo
Nearest frequency peer: anyhoo (-2 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 “appraising”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- anticlimact…
anticlimactic
27,913 corpus weight
- anyhoo
anyhoo
27,911 corpus weight
- appraising
appraising
27,909 corpus weight
- asana
asana
27,907 corpus weight
- aseptic
aseptic
27,906 corpus weight
- astrodome
astrodome
27,905 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “appraising” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appraising |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “appraising” in English
Rare enough to double-check
appraising is uncommon English at frequency #72,092 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of appraise".
Zero misspellings are on record for appraising in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is appraising, spelled A-P-P-R-A-I-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of appraise
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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