belching
/ˈbɛlt͡ʃɪŋ/
"belching" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“belching” is uncommon English (frequency #60,650 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,650
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of belch
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belching |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbɛlt͡ʃɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “belching” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
belching is uncommon English at frequency #60,650 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbɛlt͡ʃɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of belch".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for belching, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is belching, spelled B-E-L-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of belch
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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Using “belching”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-L-C-H-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbɛlt͡ʃɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.