disbelieving
/dɪsbɪˈliːvɪŋ(ɡ)/
"disbelieving" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disbelieving” is uncommon English (frequency #68,999 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,999
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of disbelieve
Corpus desk
Index EN-disbelieving · disbelieving · English
disbelieving · rank #68,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,999
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dingus
Nearest frequency peer: dingus (-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 “disbelieving”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- digitalis
digitalis
31,005 corpus weight
- dingus
dingus
31,003 corpus weight
- disbelieving
disbelieving
31,002 corpus weight
- disentangle
disentangle
31,001 corpus weight
- dispersive
dispersive
31,000 corpus weight
- divestiture
divestiture
30,999 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “disbelieving” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disbelieving |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪsbɪˈliːvɪŋ(ɡ)/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #68,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “disbelieving” in English
Rare enough to double-check
disbelieving is uncommon English at frequency #68,999 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪsbɪˈliːvɪŋ(ɡ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of disbelieve".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for disbelieving, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is disbelieving, spelled D-I-S-B-E-L-I-E-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of disbelieve
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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