banqueting

noun

"banqueting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“banqueting” is uncommon English (frequency #65,714 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,714
frequency rank, English
4,121
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of holding or participating in a banquet.

Corpus desk

Index EN-banqueting · banqueting · English

banqueting · rank #65,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,714
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,121
  • PHOTO-FINISH banca

Nearest frequency peer: banca (-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 “banqueting”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “banqueting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for banqueting
PropertyValue
Headwordbanqueting
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#65,714
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “banqueting” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).banquetingfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “banca” (#65,713), “barest” (#65,715), “baggie” (#65,711). Among 4,121 “B” headwords, “banqueting” is #65,714. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

banqueting is uncommon English at frequency #65,714 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of holding or participating in a banquet.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for banqueting in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 banqueting, spelled B-A-N-Q-U-E-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    The act of holding or participating in a banquet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how banqueting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Come, come, Therſites help to trim my tent? This night in banquetting muſt al be ſpent, away Patroclus.
  2. Foꝛ the time paſt of our life may ſuffice vs to haue wꝛought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in laſciuiouſnes, luſts, exceſſe of wine, reuellings, banquetings, and abhominable idolatries.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "banqueting"?
"banqueting" is spelled B-A-N-Q-U-E-T-I-N-G.
What does "banqueting" mean?
As a noun, "banqueting" means: The act of holding or participating in a banquet.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "banqueting", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list