groveling
"groveling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“groveling” is uncommon English (frequency #80,501 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,501
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of grovel
Corpus desk
Index EN-groveling · groveling · English
groveling · rank #80,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,501
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Grigsby
Nearest frequency peer: Grigsby (-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 “groveling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Granlund
Granlund
19,505 corpus weight
- greatful
greatful
19,503 corpus weight
- Grigsby
Grigsby
19,501 corpus weight
- groveling
groveling
19,500 corpus weight
- Gstaad
Gstaad
19,499 corpus weight
- gurgle
gurgle
19,497 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “groveling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | groveling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “groveling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
groveling is uncommon English at frequency #80,501 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of grovel".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for groveling, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is groveling, spelled G-R-O-V-E-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of grovel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how groveling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
New ways I must attempt, my groveling name To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).