attesting
/əˈtɛstɪŋ/
"attesting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“attesting” is uncommon English (frequency #60,630 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,630
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of attest
Corpus desk
Index EN-attesting · attesting · English
attesting · rank #60,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,630
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aristophanes
Nearest frequency peer: Aristophanes (-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 “attesting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aristophanes
Aristophanes
39,374 corpus weight
- attesting
attesting
39,371 corpus weight
- Ayman
Ayman
39,367 corpus weight
- Azar
Azar
39,366 corpus weight
- backfiring
backfiring
39,365 corpus weight
- Balmer
Balmer
39,364 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “attesting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attesting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈtɛstɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “attesting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
attesting is uncommon English at frequency #60,630 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈtɛstɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of attest".
No misspelling variants are generated for attesting 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is attesting, spelled A-T-T-E-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of attest
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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