fomenting
"fomenting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fomenting” is uncommon English (frequency #65,123 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,123
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of foment
Corpus desk
Index EN-fomenting · fomenting · English
fomenting · rank #65,123 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,123
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH footings
Nearest frequency peer: footings (+2 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 “fomenting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fivefold
fivefold
34,883 corpus weight
- Flavius
Flavius
34,882 corpus weight
- flecked
flecked
34,881 corpus weight
- fomenting
fomenting
34,878 corpus weight
- footings
footings
34,876 corpus weight
- Frenkel
Frenkel
34,873 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fomenting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fomenting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fomenting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fomenting is uncommon English at frequency #65,123 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of foment".
fomenting has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is fomenting, spelled F-O-M-E-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of foment
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fomenting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
fomenting a revolution
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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