dooming
/ˈduːmɪŋ/
"dooming" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dooming” is uncommon English (frequency #96,950 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,950
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of doom
Corpus desk
Index EN-dooming · dooming · English
dooming · rank #96,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,950
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dormouse
Nearest frequency peer: dormouse (+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 “dooming”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dissuading
dissuading
3,055 corpus weight
- distressing…
distressingly
3,054 corpus weight
- dooming
dooming
3,051 corpus weight
- dormouse
dormouse
3,050 corpus weight
- draftee
draftee
3,047 corpus weight
- drat
drat
3,046 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dooming” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dooming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈduːmɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dooming” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dooming is uncommon English at frequency #96,950 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈduːmɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of doom".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dooming in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is dooming, spelled D-O-O-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of doom
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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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.