availing
"availing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“availing” is uncommon English (frequency #58,523 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,523
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of avail
Corpus desk
Index EN-availing · availing · English
availing · rank #58,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,523
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aubergine
Nearest frequency peer: aubergine (-1 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 “availing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Athol
Athol
41,481 corpus weight
- aubergine
aubergine
41,479 corpus weight
- availing
availing
41,478 corpus weight
- awestruck
awestruck
41,477 corpus weight
- awl
awl
41,476 corpus weight
- axillary
axillary
41,475 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “availing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | availing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “availing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
availing is uncommon English at frequency #58,523 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of avail".
availing has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is availing, spelled A-V-A-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of avail
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how availing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I'm availing myself of the opportunity.
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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