dousing
"dousing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dousing” is uncommon English (frequency #78,544 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,544
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is doused.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dousing · dousing · English
dousing · rank #78,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,544
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH douce
Nearest frequency peer: douce (-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 “dousing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dooms
dooms
21,461 corpus weight
- doorstop
doorstop
21,460 corpus weight
- dopa
dopa
21,459 corpus weight
- douce
douce
21,458 corpus weight
- dousing
dousing
21,457 corpus weight
- DPO
DPO
21,453 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dousing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dousing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dousing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dousing is uncommon English at frequency #78,544 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is doused.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dousing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is dousing, spelled D-O-U-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is doused.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dousing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But the Royal Commission learned that he also employed water-dousings and a vicious device called the "punishment jacket" to inflict varying degrees of physical and psychological torments upon the inmates under his care.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).