freeloading
"freeloading" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“freeloading” is uncommon English (frequency #88,354 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,354
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of freeload
Corpus desk
Index EN-freeloading · freeloading · English
freeloading · rank #88,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,354
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH frenemies
Nearest frequency peer: frenemies (+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 “freeloading”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- formate
formate
11,651 corpus weight
- fourty
fourty
11,649 corpus weight
- freeloading
freeloading
11,647 corpus weight
- frenemies
frenemies
11,646 corpus weight
- fricative
fricative
11,644 corpus weight
- frogger
frogger
11,643 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “freeloading” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | freeloading |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “freeloading” in English
Rare enough to double-check
freeloading is uncommon English at frequency #88,354 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of freeload".
No misspelling variants are generated for freeloading in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From freeload + -ing. The correct English form is freeloading, spelled F-R-E-E-L-O-A-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of freeload
Etymology
From freeload + -ing.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).