ferrying
"ferrying" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ferrying” is uncommon English (frequency #50,509 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,509
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is ferried.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ferrying · ferrying · English
ferrying · rank #50,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,509
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fertilisation
Nearest frequency peer: fertilisation (+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 “ferrying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fashionista
fashionista
49,496 corpus weight
- favela
favela
49,494 corpus weight
- ferrying
ferrying
49,492 corpus weight
- fertilisati…
fertilisation
49,491 corpus weight
- festivity
festivity
49,490 corpus weight
- FFP
FFP
49,489 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ferrying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ferrying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ferrying is uncommon English at frequency #50,509 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is ferried.".
ferrying has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ferrying, spelled F-E-R-R-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is ferried.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ferrying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Their workday of love was one of ferryings and crossings from shore to shore, island to island, of perceptions into death[…]
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).