crating
/ˈkɹeɪtɪŋ/
"crating" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crating” is uncommon English (frequency #93,581 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,581
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of crate
Corpus desk
Index EN-crating · crating · English
crating · rank #93,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,581
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH craik
Nearest frequency peer: craik (-1 rank slots)
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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 “crating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- counterpunch
counterpunch
6,423 corpus weight
- counterstri…
counterstrike
6,422 corpus weight
- craik
craik
6,421 corpus weight
- crating
crating
6,420 corpus weight
- criminalise
criminalise
6,418 corpus weight
- Crispus
Crispus
6,417 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkɹeɪtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crating is uncommon English at frequency #93,581 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkɹeɪtɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of crate".
No generated misspelling entries exist for crating in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 crating, spelled C-R-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of crate
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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