bulldozing

noun

"bulldozing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“bulldozing” is uncommon English (frequency #79,344 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,344
frequency rank, English
31,241
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An act of demolition with a bulldozer.

Key facts for bulldozing
PropertyValue
Headwordbulldozing
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#79,344
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “bulldozing” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). bulldozing lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bulldozing is uncommon English at frequency #79,344 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An act of demolition with a bulldozer.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bulldozing, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is bulldozing, spelled B-U-L-L-D-O-Z-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    An act of demolition with a bulldozer.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bulldozing"?
"bulldozing" is spelled B-U-L-L-D-O-Z-I-N-G.
What does "bulldozing" mean?
As a noun, "bulldozing" means: An act of demolition with a bulldozer.
What language does "bulldozing" come from?
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Using “bulldozing”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is B-U-L-L-D-O-Z-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list