bewitching
/bəˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
"bewitching" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bewitching” is uncommon English (frequency #50,384 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,384
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bewitching · bewitching · English
bewitching · rank #50,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,384
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bibby
Nearest frequency peer: Bibby (+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 “bewitching”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bayless
bayless
49,622 corpus weight
- beekeeper
beekeeper
49,621 corpus weight
- befell
befell
49,620 corpus weight
- bewitching
bewitching
49,617 corpus weight
- Bibby
Bibby
49,615 corpus weight
- biomechanics
biomechanics
49,613 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bewitching” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bewitching |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bəˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bewitching” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bewitching is uncommon English at frequency #50,384 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bəˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bewitching in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bewitch + -ing. The correct English form is bewitching, spelled B-E-W-I-T-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.
Etymology
From bewitch + -ing.
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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