groveling
"groveling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“groveling” is an uncommon English word, ranked #80,501 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #80,501
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of grovel
| 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) |
Where “groveling” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for groveling is 9 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #80,501 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “groveling”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-O-V-E-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.