harking
"harking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“harking” is uncommon English (frequency #87,355 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,355
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of harking back; a reversion or return.
Corpus desk
Index EN-harking · harking · English
harking · rank #87,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,355
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH harangue
Nearest frequency peer: harangue (-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 “harking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hairball
hairball
12,652 corpus weight
- harangue
harangue
12,649 corpus weight
- harking
harking
12,646 corpus weight
- heartworm
heartworm
12,643 corpus weight
- Heebie
Heebie
12,642 corpus weight
- Hijra
Hijra
12,639 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “harking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “harking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
harking is uncommon English at frequency #87,355 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of harking back; a reversion or return.".
Zero misspellings are on record for harking in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is harking, spelled H-A-R-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of harking back; a reversion or return.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how harking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Despite such harkings to the Old Muscovite past, the trappings of European life inevitably followed once the Russians began to live in European settings.
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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