banting
"banting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“banting” is uncommon English (frequency #86,044 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,044
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A diet aimed at losing weight, mostly accomplished by avoiding carbohydrates and sweet foods.
Corpus desk
Index EN-banting · banting · English
banting · rank #86,044 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,044
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bampton
Nearest frequency peer: Bampton (-2 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 “banting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- attainments
attainments
13,967 corpus weight
- Azeem
Azeem
13,963 corpus weight
- backslash
backslash
13,962 corpus weight
- Bampton
Bampton
13,959 corpus weight
- banting
banting
13,957 corpus weight
- batwing
batwing
13,951 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “banting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “banting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
banting is uncommon English at frequency #86,044 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A diet aimed at losing weight, mostly accomplished by avoiding carbohydrates and sweet foods.".
No misspelling variants are generated for banting in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after William Banting. The correct English form is banting, spelled B-A-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A diet aimed at losing weight, mostly accomplished by avoiding carbohydrates and sweet foods.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how banting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.
Etymology
Named after William Banting.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).