exhorting
"exhorting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exhorting” is uncommon English (frequency #69,038 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,038
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exhortation
Corpus desk
Index EN-exhorting · exhorting · English
exhorting · rank #69,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,038
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH expunge
Nearest frequency peer: expunge (+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 “exhorting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- estoppel
estoppel
30,968 corpus weight
- evangelize
evangelize
30,966 corpus weight
- exhorting
exhorting
30,963 corpus weight
- expunge
expunge
30,962 corpus weight
- Fabre
Fabre
30,961 corpus weight
- falciparum
falciparum
30,960 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “exhorting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exhorting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exhorting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exhorting is uncommon English at frequency #69,038 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "exhortation".
exhorting has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is exhorting, spelled E-X-H-O-R-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1exhortation
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exhorting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] their censorious outcries against the standing ministers and Churches in general, their Lay ordinations, their Lay preachings, and public exhortings, and administering Sacraments […]
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).