bulldozing
"bulldozing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bulldozing” is uncommon English (frequency #79,344 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,344
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act of demolition with a bulldozer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bulldozing · bulldozing · English
bulldozing · rank #79,344 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,344
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bullhead
Nearest frequency peer: bullhead (+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 “bulldozing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Brinkman
Brinkman
20,662 corpus weight
- brr
brr
20,659 corpus weight
- bulldozing
bulldozing
20,657 corpus weight
- bullhead
bullhead
20,656 corpus weight
- bundt
bundt
20,654 corpus weight
- cabinetry
cabinetry
20,651 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bulldozing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulldozing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bulldozing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bulldozing is uncommon English at frequency #79,344 among 4,121 “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
- 1An act of demolition with a bulldozer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bulldozing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With the exception of approximately 130 acres which were treated in 1948, all of the bulldozings were carried out from April, 1946, to July, 1947.
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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