clumping
/ˈklʌmpɪŋ/
"clumping" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clumping” is uncommon English (frequency #63,511 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,511
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of clump
Corpus desk
Index EN-clumping · clumping · English
clumping · rank #63,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,511
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coalfield
Nearest frequency peer: coalfield (+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 “clumping”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- circumferen…
circumferential
36,494 corpus weight
- clandestine…
clandestinely
36,492 corpus weight
- clumping
clumping
36,490 corpus weight
- coalfield
coalfield
36,489 corpus weight
- cockle
cockle
36,487 corpus weight
- codebase
codebase
36,486 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “clumping” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clumping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈklʌmpɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “clumping” in English
Rare enough to double-check
clumping is uncommon English at frequency #63,511 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈklʌmpɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of clump".
No misspelling variants are generated for clumping in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is clumping, spelled C-L-U-M-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of clump
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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