devaluing
"devaluing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“devaluing” is uncommon English (frequency #65,827 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,827
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - devaluation
Corpus desk
Index EN-devaluing · devaluing · English
devaluing · rank #65,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,827
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dewhurst
Nearest frequency peer: Dewhurst (+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 “devaluing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- demobilizat…
demobilization
34,177 corpus weight
- desu
desu
34,176 corpus weight
- devaluing
devaluing
34,174 corpus weight
- Dewhurst
Dewhurst
34,173 corpus weight
- dextrose
dextrose
34,172 corpus weight
- dialectics
dialectics
34,171 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “devaluing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devaluing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “devaluing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
devaluing is uncommon English at frequency #65,827 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "devaluation".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for devaluing, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is devaluing, spelled D-E-V-A-L-U-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1devaluation
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how devaluing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The central points made in these various deconstructions of the nature of genius and devaluings of the cultivation of individuality are surely correct.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).