drenching
"drenching" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drenching” is uncommon English (frequency #65,070 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,070
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of drench
Corpus desk
Index EN-drenching · drenching · English
drenching · rank #65,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,070
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH DTI
Nearest frequency peer: DTI (+2 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 “drenching”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dosa
dosa
34,936 corpus weight
- doublet
doublet
34,935 corpus weight
- drenching
drenching
34,931 corpus weight
- DTI
DTI
34,929 corpus weight
- dumpy
dumpy
34,927 corpus weight
- Dunleavy
Dunleavy
34,926 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “drenching” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “drenching” in English
Rare enough to double-check
drenching is uncommon English at frequency #65,070 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).