costuming
"costuming" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“costuming” is uncommon English (frequency #64,289 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,289
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Material for making costumes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-costuming · costuming · English
costuming · rank #64,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,289
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coworking
Nearest frequency peer: coworking (+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 “costuming”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- CONUS
CONUS
35,717 corpus weight
- cooties
cooties
35,716 corpus weight
- copland
copland
35,715 corpus weight
- costuming
costuming
35,712 corpus weight
- coworking
coworking
35,710 corpus weight
- credulity
credulity
35,709 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “costuming” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costuming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “costuming” in English
Rare enough to double-check
costuming is uncommon English at frequency #64,289 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for costuming, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is costuming, spelled C-O-S-T-U-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Material for making costumes.
- 2The putting on of a costume; dressing up.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how costuming appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In addition to men's suitings and ladies' costumings the firm also produces man-made fabrics for filtration and protective clothing.
[…] but his sole real concern continues to be the posture in which his subject stands naked between his costumings.
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).