busing
/ˈbʌsɪŋ/
"busing" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“busing” is uncommon English (frequency #51,007 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,007
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of bus
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | busing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbʌsɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “busing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
busing is uncommon English at frequency #51,007 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbʌsɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of bus".
No misspelling variants are generated for busing in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is busing, spelled B-U-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of bus
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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Using “busing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-U-S-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbʌsɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.