fearmongering
"fearmongering" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fearmongering” is uncommon English (frequency #90,442 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,442
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fearmongering · fearmongering · English
fearmongering · rank #90,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,442
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,613
- PHOTO-FINISH Federici
Nearest frequency peer: Federici (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fearmongering”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- fanged
fanged
9,565 corpus weight
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Farman
9,563 corpus weight
- fascistic
fascistic
9,562 corpus weight
- fearmongeri…
fearmongering
9,559 corpus weight
- Federici
Federici
9,558 corpus weight
- firestarter
firestarter
9,554 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fearmongering” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fearmongering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #90,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fearmongering” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fearmongering is uncommon English at frequency #90,442 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fearmongering, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is fearmongering, spelled F-E-A-R-M-O-N-G-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.