fording
"fording" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fording” is uncommon English (frequency #97,039 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,039
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is forded.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fording · fording · English
fording · rank #97,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,039
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flowerpot
Nearest frequency peer: flowerpot (-3 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 “fording”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Flannigan
Flannigan
2,970 corpus weight
- fledge
fledge
2,968 corpus weight
- flowerpot
flowerpot
2,965 corpus weight
- fording
fording
2,962 corpus weight
- foxtail
foxtail
2,957 corpus weight
- fraulein
fraulein
2,956 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fording” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fording |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fording” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fording is uncommon English at frequency #97,039 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fording, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is fording, spelled F-O-R-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is forded.
- 2Fording place
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fording appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.
There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).