cushioning
/ˈkʊʃənɪŋ/
"cushioning" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cushioning” is uncommon English (frequency #57,317 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,317
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of cushion
Corpus desk
Index EN-cushioning · cushioning · English
cushioning · rank #57,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,317
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH curio
Nearest frequency peer: curio (-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 “cushioning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crumbly
crumbly
42,688 corpus weight
- cultists
cultists
42,686 corpus weight
- curio
curio
42,685 corpus weight
- cushioning
cushioning
42,684 corpus weight
- cust
cust
42,683 corpus weight
- Cuzco
Cuzco
42,682 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cushioning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cushioning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkʊʃənɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cushioning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cushioning is uncommon English at frequency #57,317 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkʊʃənɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of cushion".
No misspelling variants are generated for cushioning in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cushioning, spelled C-U-S-H-I-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of cushion
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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