enraging
"enraging" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“enraging” is uncommon English (frequency #74,937 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,937
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causing one to become enraged; infuriating.
Corpus desk
Index EN-enraging · enraging · English
enraging · rank #74,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,937
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH entangle
Nearest frequency peer: entangle (+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 “enraging”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Eleonora
Eleonora
25,071 corpus weight
- elif
elif
25,070 corpus weight
- EMV
EMV
25,066 corpus weight
- enraging
enraging
25,064 corpus weight
- entangle
entangle
25,063 corpus weight
- Estevez
Estevez
25,059 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “enraging” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enraging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “enraging” in English
Rare enough to double-check
enraging is uncommon English at frequency #74,937 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Causing one to become enraged; infuriating.".
enraging doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 enraging, spelled E-N-R-A-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Causing one to become enraged; infuriating.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enraging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I know nothing more enraging than to be shown into a charming-looking room, with a beautiful great cupboard, and a gallant chest of drawers, that seem to promise us ample breathing-room for one's things , and to discover half the space we were so very gleefully looking forward to appropriating is already taken up by all sorts and conditions of household p…
Most enraging to the peasants was the tax he forcibly levied on irrigation water from the Mansŏk-po reservoir .
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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