banishing
/ˈbænɪʃɪŋ/
"banishing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“banishing” is uncommon English (frequency #52,170 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,170
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of banish
Corpus desk
Index EN-banishing · banishing · English
banishing · rank #52,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,170
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bangle
Nearest frequency peer: bangle (-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 “banishing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- balaclava
balaclava
47,834 corpus weight
- bandicoot
bandicoot
47,833 corpus weight
- bangle
bangle
47,832 corpus weight
- banishing
banishing
47,831 corpus weight
- Bayes
Bayes
47,830 corpus weight
- beadle
beadle
47,828 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “banishing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banishing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbænɪʃɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “banishing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
banishing is uncommon English at frequency #52,170 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbænɪʃɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of banish".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for banishing, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is banishing, spelled B-A-N-I-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of banish
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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