communing
"communing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“communing” is uncommon English (frequency #77,547 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,547
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who communes; a communion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-communing · communing · English
communing · rank #77,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,547
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH combinator
Nearest frequency peer: combinator (-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 “communing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- colchicine
colchicine
22,458 corpus weight
- combinator
combinator
22,455 corpus weight
- communing
communing
22,454 corpus weight
- concordat
concordat
22,452 corpus weight
- concussive
concussive
22,451 corpus weight
- confluent
confluent
22,450 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “communing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | communing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “communing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
communing is uncommon English at frequency #77,547 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who communes; a communion.".
communing has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is communing, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who communes; a communion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how communing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hope had never been the companion of love. Even in her most secret communings with herself, she had never admitted even the fancy of their union.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).