deluding
"deluding" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deluding” is uncommon English (frequency #62,832 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,832
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of delude
Corpus desk
Index EN-deluding · deluding · English
deluding · rank #62,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,832
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Defra
Nearest frequency peer: Defra (-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 “deluding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- deceives
deceives
37,174 corpus weight
- decimation
decimation
37,173 corpus weight
- deeded
deeded
37,171 corpus weight
- Defra
Defra
37,170 corpus weight
- deluding
deluding
37,169 corpus weight
- detainment
detainment
37,166 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “deluding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deluding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “deluding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
deluding is uncommon English at frequency #62,832 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of delude".
No misspelling variants are generated for deluding in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is deluding, spelled D-E-L-U-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of delude
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deluding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
...the blaze on the hearth was flickering and faint, while the pale moonlight shone quietly into that room of disappointment and death, as it had a thousand times shone on its lonely and deluding pursuits.
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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