bemoaning
"bemoaning" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bemoaning” is uncommon English (frequency #62,705 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,705
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A moaning or lamentation that is loudly expressed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bemoaning · bemoaning · English
bemoaning · rank #62,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,705
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bellowed
Nearest frequency peer: bellowed (-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 “bemoaning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Basle
Basle
37,302 corpus weight
- Bateson
Bateson
37,301 corpus weight
- bellowed
bellowed
37,297 corpus weight
- bemoaning
bemoaning
37,296 corpus weight
- betrayer
betrayer
37,292 corpus weight
- Bettencourt
Bettencourt
37,291 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bemoaning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bemoaning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bemoaning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bemoaning is uncommon English at frequency #62,705 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A moaning or lamentation that is loudly expressed.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bemoaning in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is bemoaning, spelled B-E-M-O-A-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A moaning or lamentation that is loudly expressed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bemoaning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You may be well assured, that these distressing bemoanings were met with every soothing expression which the deepest interest, so strongly excited, could suggest.
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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