careening
"careening" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“careening” is uncommon English (frequency #68,908 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,908
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The motion of something that careens.
Corpus desk
Index EN-careening · careening · English
careening · rank #68,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,908
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH carillon
Nearest frequency peer: carillon (+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 “careening”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Burne
Burne
31,101 corpus weight
- Bustamante
Bustamante
31,099 corpus weight
- calabash
calabash
31,096 corpus weight
- careening
careening
31,093 corpus weight
- carillon
carillon
31,091 corpus weight
- cento
cento
31,087 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “careening” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | careening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “careening” in English
Rare enough to double-check
careening is uncommon English at frequency #68,908 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The motion of something that careens.".
careening doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is careening, spelled C-A-R-E-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The motion of something that careens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how careening appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The most logical explanation for the telltale randomly oriented magnetic rock materials is the recurrent careenings of the globe.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).