constraining
"constraining" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“constraining” is uncommon English (frequency #52,236 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,236
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of constrain
Corpus desk
Index EN-constraining · constraining · English
constraining · rank #52,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,236
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH conformance
Nearest frequency peer: conformance (-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 “constraining”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- computes
computes
47,768 corpus weight
- concours
concours
47,767 corpus weight
- conformance
conformance
47,766 corpus weight
- constraining
constraining
47,765 corpus weight
- copywriter
copywriter
47,764 corpus weight
- cosine
cosine
47,761 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “constraining” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | constraining |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #52,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “constraining” in English
Rare enough to double-check
constraining is uncommon English at frequency #52,236 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of constrain".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for constraining, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is constraining, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-A-I-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of constrain
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how constraining appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
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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