entrancing
"entrancing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“entrancing” is uncommon English (frequency #72,278 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,278
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causing a trance-like state; hypnotic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-entrancing · entrancing · English
entrancing · rank #72,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,278
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH endocytosis
Nearest frequency peer: endocytosis (-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 “entrancing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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electromagnet
27,730 corpus weight
- Elster
Elster
27,729 corpus weight
- emancipate
emancipate
27,728 corpus weight
- endocytosis
endocytosis
27,725 corpus weight
- entrancing
entrancing
27,723 corpus weight
- erythematos…
erythematosus
27,719 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “entrancing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entrancing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “entrancing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
entrancing is uncommon English at frequency #72,278 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
entrancing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is entrancing, spelled E-N-T-R-A-N-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Causing a trance-like state; hypnotic.
- 2Causing ecstasy or rapture; enrapturing; charming.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entrancing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But, behind and above them all, hovered the shape of that awful woman, and through them gleamed the memory of her entrancing loveliness.
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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