commandeering
"commandeering" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commandeering” is uncommon English (frequency #86,158 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,158
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of commandeering; seizure.
Corpus desk
Index EN-commandeering · commandeering · English
commandeering · rank #86,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,158
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH comix
Nearest frequency peer: comix (-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 “commandeering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- clonidine
clonidine
13,849 corpus weight
- CNO
CNO
13,848 corpus weight
- Colgan
Colgan
13,846 corpus weight
- comix
comix
13,844 corpus weight
- commandeeri…
commandeering
13,843 corpus weight
- compellingly
compellingly
13,842 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “commandeering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commandeering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #86,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “commandeering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
commandeering is uncommon English at frequency #86,158 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of commandeering; seizure.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for commandeering in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is commandeering, spelled C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of commandeering; seizure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commandeering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As the commandeering was in the majority of cases carried out by the official local commandant or the veld kornet, or other duly appointed officer of the local rifle association, it was not always easy to distinguish between the commandeering orders on behalf of the Government (which was mobilizing its own commandos at the time) and those on behalf of the…
This category includes all forms of attack on general aviation or charter aviation aircraft and facilities, with 27 hijackings, 21 commandeerings, nine destroyed aircraft, and one airport bombing occurring in the 1986 to 1995 period.
This word in other languages
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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