cresting
/ˈkɹɛstɪŋ/
"cresting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cresting” is uncommon English (frequency #84,125 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,125
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of crest
Corpus desk
Index EN-cresting · cresting · English
cresting · rank #84,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,125
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Couse
Nearest frequency peer: Couse (-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 “cresting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cotillion
cotillion
15,881 corpus weight
- cottonmouth
cottonmouth
15,880 corpus weight
- Couse
Couse
15,878 corpus weight
- cresting
cresting
15,876 corpus weight
- cringes
cringes
15,874 corpus weight
- crouches
crouches
15,871 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cresting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cresting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkɹɛstɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cresting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cresting is uncommon English at frequency #84,125 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkɹɛstɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of crest".
No misspelling variants are generated for cresting in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cresting, spelled C-R-E-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of crest
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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