hastening
"hastening" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hastening” is uncommon English (frequency #66,713 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,713
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of speeding up; a growing faster.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hastening · hastening · English
hastening · rank #66,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,713
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Harrisonburg
Nearest frequency peer: Harrisonburg (-2 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 “hastening”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Harrisonburg
Harrisonburg
33,290 corpus weight
- hastening
hastening
33,288 corpus weight
- headwind
headwind
33,286 corpus weight
- Hertha
Hertha
33,284 corpus weight
- HGV
HGV
33,283 corpus weight
- Hitchin
Hitchin
33,281 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hastening” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hastening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hastening” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hastening is uncommon English at frequency #66,713 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of speeding up; a growing faster.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hastening, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hastening, spelled H-A-S-T-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of speeding up; a growing faster.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hastening appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miss D. had found that regular blinking, or a loud-ticking watch, or horizontal lines or marks on the ground, etc., similarly served to pace her, and to prevent the incontinent hastenings and retardations which otherwise marred her ambulation.
The secret seems to be a very precise control of the subtle slackenings and hastenings of tempo that are essential to Scriabin's idiom[…]
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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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