expounding
"expounding" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“expounding” is uncommon English (frequency #78,585 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,585
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is expounded.
Corpus desk
Index EN-expounding · expounding · English
expounding · rank #78,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,585
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH expresso
Nearest frequency peer: expresso (+1 rank slots)
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Long-tail ranks near “expounding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- estrange
estrange
21,423 corpus weight
- eutrophicat…
eutrophication
21,421 corpus weight
- expounding
expounding
21,416 corpus weight
- expresso
expresso
21,415 corpus weight
- exultant
exultant
21,413 corpus weight
- Fahy
Fahy
21,410 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “expounding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expounding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “expounding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
expounding is uncommon English at frequency #78,585 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is expounded.".
expounding doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is expounding, spelled E-X-P-O-U-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is expounded.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how expounding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
May 7, 1814, William Cobbett, "The Pope", in Political Register […] all the elaborate expoundings of these impudent empirics, who are a million times worse than the worst of Catholic Priests.
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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