divulging
"divulging" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“divulging” is uncommon English (frequency #65,842 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,842
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is divulged.
Corpus desk
Index EN-divulging · divulging · English
divulging · rank #65,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,842
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dithering
Nearest frequency peer: dithering (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “divulging”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dispossessi…
dispossession
34,163 corpus weight
- dithering
dithering
34,160 corpus weight
- divulging
divulging
34,159 corpus weight
- dobbin
dobbin
34,158 corpus weight
- Docherty
Docherty
34,157 corpus weight
- Dongguan
Dongguan
34,156 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “divulging” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divulging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “divulging” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
divulging is uncommon English at frequency #65,842 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is divulged.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for divulging in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is divulging, spelled D-I-V-U-L-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is divulged.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how divulging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Though it was no longer a question of her life and safety, he knew that he could still preserve her memory from stain by keeping her secret, even though its divulgings might clear his own.
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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