dicing
/ˈdaɪsɪŋ/
"dicing" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dicing” is uncommon English (frequency #73,127 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,127
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of dice
Corpus desk
Index EN-dicing · dicing · English
dicing · rank #73,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,127
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH diatonic
Nearest frequency peer: diatonic (-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 “dicing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Devitt
Devitt
26,877 corpus weight
- diatonic
diatonic
26,875 corpus weight
- dicing
dicing
26,874 corpus weight
- diethyl
diethyl
26,873 corpus weight
- dimpled
dimpled
26,872 corpus weight
- dinnerware
dinnerware
26,871 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dicing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dicing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdaɪsɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dicing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dicing is uncommon English at frequency #73,127 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈdaɪsɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of dice".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dicing, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is dicing, spelled D-I-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of dice
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dicing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Over the course of two sweltering days of rambling the West Bank, we squeeze through a thicket of visible and imaginary borders, fences, walls, frontiers, barriers…
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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