drenching
"drenching" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drenching” is an uncommon English word, ranked #65,070 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #65,070
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of drench
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drenching |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drenching” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for drenching is 9 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #65,070 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "present participle and gerund of drench".
No generated misspelling entries exist for drenching in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench + -ing. The correct English form is drenching, spelled D-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of drench
Etymology
From Middle English drenchyng, drenchynge, drenchende, from Old English drenċende, from Proto-Germanic *drankijandz, present participle of *drankijaną (“to drench”), equivalent to drench + -ing.
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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Using “drenching”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.