baying
"baying" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baying” is uncommon English (frequency #68,856 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,856
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of bay
Corpus desk
Index EN-baying · baying · English
baying · rank #68,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,856
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bassinet
Nearest frequency peer: bassinet (-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 “baying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Barbadian
Barbadian
31,151 corpus weight
- Barnstaple
Barnstaple
31,150 corpus weight
- bassinet
bassinet
31,146 corpus weight
- baying
baying
31,145 corpus weight
- BCR
BCR
31,143 corpus weight
- beechwood
beechwood
31,141 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “baying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “baying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
baying is uncommon English at frequency #68,856 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of bay".
No misspelling variants are generated for baying in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 baying, spelled B-A-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of bay
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.
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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