culturing
"culturing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“culturing” is uncommon English (frequency #74,007 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,007
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).
Corpus desk
Index EN-culturing · culturing · English
culturing · rank #74,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,007
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH curmudgeon
Nearest frequency peer: curmudgeon (+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 “culturing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crisply
crisply
25,999 corpus weight
- crosswise
crosswise
25,998 corpus weight
- Crumlin
Crumlin
25,997 corpus weight
- culturing
culturing
25,994 corpus weight
- curmudgeon
curmudgeon
25,993 corpus weight
- Dacre
Dacre
25,989 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “culturing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culturing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “culturing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
culturing is uncommon English at frequency #74,007 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).".
No misspelling variants are generated for culturing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is culturing, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how culturing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thus a positive finding may require several control culturings after treatment to eliminate false-negative results.
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).