divining
"divining" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“divining” is uncommon English (frequency #74,036 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,036
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action of the verb to divine in any sense.
Corpus desk
Index EN-divining · divining · English
divining · rank #74,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,036
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disrespectful…
Nearest frequency peer: disrespectfully (-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 “divining”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dict
dict
25,972 corpus weight
- dispirited
dispirited
25,967 corpus weight
- disrespectf…
disrespectfully
25,966 corpus weight
- divining
divining
25,965 corpus weight
- Dnipropetro…
Dnipropetrovsk
25,963 corpus weight
- Doig
Doig
25,962 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “divining” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divining |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “divining” in English
Rare enough to double-check
divining is uncommon English at frequency #74,036 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The action of the verb to divine in any sense.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for divining, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is divining, spelled D-I-V-I-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The action of the verb to divine in any sense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how divining appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We took a long stroll through the lamp-lit streets, talking of the blessed hopes that struggled in our bosoms; of the faint divinings of the future; told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.
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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