ebbing
/ˈɛbɪŋ/
"ebbing" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ebbing” is uncommon English (frequency #57,994 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,994
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of ebb
Corpus desk
Index EN-ebbing · ebbing · English
ebbing · rank #57,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,994
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH earthworm
Nearest frequency peer: earthworm (-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 “ebbing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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ductile
42,013 corpus weight
- earthworm
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42,008 corpus weight
- ebbing
ebbing
42,007 corpus weight
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ecchi
42,005 corpus weight
- eclampsia
eclampsia
42,003 corpus weight
- employable
employable
42,001 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ebbing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ebbing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɛbɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ebbing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ebbing is uncommon English at frequency #57,994 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɛbɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of ebb".
ebbing has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is ebbing, spelled E-B-B-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of ebb
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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