disquieting
"disquieting" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disquieting” is uncommon English (frequency #64,318 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,318
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-disquieting · disquieting · English
disquieting · rank #64,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,318
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disembarking
Nearest frequency peer: disembarking (-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 “disquieting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- determinate
determinate
35,687 corpus weight
- dexamethaso…
dexamethasone
35,686 corpus weight
- diddly
diddly
35,685 corpus weight
- disembarking
disembarking
35,684 corpus weight
- disquieting
disquieting
35,683 corpus weight
- dockside
dockside
35,679 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “disquieting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disquieting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “disquieting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
disquieting is uncommon English at frequency #64,318 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.".
No misspelling variants are generated for disquieting in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From disquiet + -ing. The correct English form is disquieting, spelled D-I-S-Q-U-I-E-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disquieting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude…
Etymology
From disquiet + -ing.
This word in other languages
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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