coveting
"coveting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coveting” is uncommon English (frequency #74,854 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,854
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who covets.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coveting · coveting · English
coveting · rank #74,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,854
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 “coveting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- countervail…
countervailing
25,149 corpus weight
- countywide
countywide
25,148 corpus weight
- coveting
coveting
25,147 corpus weight
- cravens
cravens
25,145 corpus weight
- CRES
CRES
25,144 corpus weight
- crimping
crimping
25,143 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coveting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coveting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coveting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coveting is uncommon English at frequency #74,854 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who covets.".
No misspelling variants are generated for coveting in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is coveting, spelled C-O-V-E-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who covets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coveting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the meantime, by the light of this discourse, we clearly see why God so highly prizeth zealous covetings and desires in men after spiritual things […]
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).