detracting
"detracting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“detracting” is uncommon English (frequency #73,122 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,122
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That detracts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-detracting · detracting · English
detracting · rank #73,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,122
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Devitt
Nearest frequency peer: Devitt (+2 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 “detracting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- despondency
despondency
26,884 corpus weight
- destabilise
destabilise
26,883 corpus weight
- detracting
detracting
26,879 corpus weight
- Devitt
Devitt
26,877 corpus weight
- diatonic
diatonic
26,875 corpus weight
- dicing
dicing
26,874 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “detracting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “detracting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
detracting is uncommon English at frequency #73,122 among 3,470 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how detracting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neither is there any thing in the condition of the laborer, more taxing to human exertion, more detracting from honorable self-respect, than any other occupation; on the contrary, agriculture, if we reason from realities, and not prejudices, is the truly noble occupation of life.
"In vino veritas," properly translated, means—that when a man is fairly under the influence of liquor, you see a strong manifestation of his real character. The vain man is vainer, the voluble, more voluble, the morose, more morose; the passionate, more passionate, the detractor, more detracting; the sycophant, more sycophantic, and so forth.
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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