delisting
"delisting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“delisting” is uncommon English (frequency #74,889 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,889
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formal removal from an official list.
Corpus desk
Index EN-delisting · delisting · English
delisting · rank #74,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,889
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH demoralize
Nearest frequency peer: demoralize (+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 “delisting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- decant
decant
25,118 corpus weight
- dein
dein
25,114 corpus weight
- delisting
delisting
25,112 corpus weight
- demoralize
demoralize
25,111 corpus weight
- depute
depute
25,109 corpus weight
- destructor
destructor
25,108 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “delisting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | delisting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “delisting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
delisting is uncommon English at frequency #74,889 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Formal removal from an official list.".
Zero misspellings are on record for delisting in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is delisting, spelled D-E-L-I-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Formal removal from an official list.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how delisting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And with no end in sight to the downward spiral, the New York Stock Exchange has temporarily suspended its $1 minimum share-price requirements to prevent a wave of delistings.
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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