countervailing
/ˌkaʊntəˈveɪlɪŋ/
"countervailing" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“countervailing” is uncommon English (frequency #74,852 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,852
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compensating with equal force.
Corpus desk
Index EN-countervailing · countervailing · English
countervailing · rank #74,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,852
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH countywide
Nearest frequency peer: countywide (+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 “countervailing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Corgan
Corgan
25,154 corpus weight
- coronel
coronel
25,152 corpus weight
- countervail…
countervailing
25,149 corpus weight
- countywide
countywide
25,148 corpus weight
- coveting
coveting
25,147 corpus weight
- cravens
cravens
25,145 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “countervailing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | countervailing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌkaʊntəˈveɪlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #74,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “countervailing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
countervailing is uncommon English at frequency #74,852 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌkaʊntəˈveɪlɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Compensating with equal force.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for countervailing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is countervailing, spelled C-O-U-N-T-E-R-V-A-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Compensating with equal force.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how countervailing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
countervailing duty
For every attribute that encourages diversity and decentralization on the Web, there is a countervailing push toward homogeneity and concentration.
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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