hosing
/ˈhəʊzɪŋ/
"hosing" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hosing” is uncommon English (frequency #74,174 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,174
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of hose
Corpus desk
Index EN-hosing · hosing · English
hosing · rank #74,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH huffy
Nearest frequency peer: huffy (+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 “hosing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hesketh
Hesketh
25,835 corpus weight
- Hildegard
Hildegard
25,833 corpus weight
- hipper
hipper
25,832 corpus weight
- hosing
hosing
25,827 corpus weight
- huffy
huffy
25,826 corpus weight
- hurr
hurr
25,825 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hosing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hosing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈhəʊzɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hosing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hosing is uncommon English at frequency #74,174 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈhəʊzɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of hose".
No misspelling variants are generated for hosing in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hose + -ing (present participle ending). The correct English form is hosing, spelled H-O-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of hose
Etymology
From hose + -ing (present participle ending).
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).