detracting
"detracting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“detracting” is uncommon English (frequency #73,122 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,122
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - That detracts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | detracting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “detracting” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
detracting is uncommon English at frequency #73,122 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That detracts.".
detracting has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is detracting, spelled D-E-T-R-A-C-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That detracts.
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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Using “detracting”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-E-T-R-A-C-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.