endeavoring
/ɪnˈdɛvəɹɪŋ/
"endeavoring" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“endeavoring” is uncommon English (frequency #66,638 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,638
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of endeavor
Corpus desk
Index EN-endeavoring · endeavoring · English
endeavoring · rank #66,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,638
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH epicurean
Nearest frequency peer: epicurean (+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 “endeavoring”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- efflux
efflux
33,368 corpus weight
- embolden
embolden
33,365 corpus weight
- endeavoring
endeavoring
33,363 corpus weight
- epicurean
epicurean
33,362 corpus weight
- epistolary
epistolary
33,361 corpus weight
- Ericson
Ericson
33,359 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “endeavoring” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endeavoring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪnˈdɛvəɹɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “endeavoring” in English
Rare enough to double-check
endeavoring is uncommon English at frequency #66,638 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɪnˈdɛvəɹɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of endeavor".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for endeavoring, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is endeavoring, spelled E-N-D-E-A-V-O-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of endeavor
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).