breezing
/ˈbɹiːzɪŋ/
"breezing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breezing” is uncommon English (frequency #97,883 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,883
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of breeze
Corpus desk
Index EN-breezing · breezing · English
breezing · rank #97,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brede
Nearest frequency peer: brede (-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 “breezing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bowstring
bowstring
2,122 corpus weight
- brede
brede
2,119 corpus weight
- breezing
breezing
2,118 corpus weight
- Brer
Brer
2,117 corpus weight
- brewmaster
brewmaster
2,116 corpus weight
- broths
broths
2,110 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “breezing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breezing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbɹiːzɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “breezing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
breezing is uncommon English at frequency #97,883 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbɹiːzɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of breeze".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for breezing, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 breezing, spelled B-R-E-E-Z-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of breeze
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how breezing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection […]
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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