exasperating
"exasperating" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exasperating” is uncommon English (frequency #59,378 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,378
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates
Corpus desk
Index EN-exasperating · exasperating · English
exasperating · rank #59,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,378
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH exportation
Nearest frequency peer: exportation (+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 “exasperating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- epigenetics
epigenetics
40,630 corpus weight
- equanimity
equanimity
40,628 corpus weight
- equitably
equitably
40,627 corpus weight
- exasperating
exasperating
40,623 corpus weight
- exportation
exportation
40,622 corpus weight
- fainter
fainter
40,617 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “exasperating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exasperating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exasperating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exasperating is uncommon English at frequency #59,378 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exasperating, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is exasperating, spelled E-X-A-S-P-E-R-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exasperating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.
This word in other languages
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).