beseeching
"beseeching" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beseeching” is uncommon English (frequency #97,846 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,846
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A heartfelt plea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beseeching · beseeching · English
beseeching · rank #97,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,846
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH benzoic
Nearest frequency peer: benzoic (-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 “beseeching”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- beneficiati…
beneficiation
2,158 corpus weight
- Benicia
Benicia
2,157 corpus weight
- benzoic
benzoic
2,156 corpus weight
- beseeching
beseeching
2,155 corpus weight
- BHT
BHT
2,154 corpus weight
- Bich
Bich
2,152 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “beseeching” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beseeching |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “beseeching” in English
Rare enough to double-check
beseeching is uncommon English at frequency #97,846 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A heartfelt plea.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beseeching, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is beseeching, spelled B-E-S-E-E-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A heartfelt plea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how beseeching appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ability to blithely make wrong turns without serious directional consequences is, of course, one of the hallmarks of PNDs — and a feature that allows me to ignore my wife’s beseechings and merrily proceed on my way without ever stopping to ask for directions.
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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