banqueting
"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
- Baffin
Baffin
34,291 corpus weight
- baggie
baggie
34,290 corpus weight
- banca
banca
34,288 corpus weight
- banqueting
banqueting
34,287 corpus weight
- barest
barest
34,286 corpus weight
- barrelled
barrelled
34,284 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “banqueting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banqueting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “banqueting” in English
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
- 1The act of holding or participating in a banquet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how banqueting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Come, come, Therſites help to trim my tent? This night in banquetting muſt al be ſpent, away Patroclus.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).