impairing
"impairing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“impairing” is uncommon English (frequency #60,176 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,176
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - impairment
Corpus desk
Index EN-impairing · impairing · English
impairing · rank #60,176 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,176
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH immunosuppres…
Nearest frequency peer: immunosuppressive (-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 “impairing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- idealised
idealised
39,829 corpus weight
- IGM
IGM
39,827 corpus weight
- immunosuppr…
immunosuppressive
39,826 corpus weight
- impairing
impairing
39,825 corpus weight
- inauspicious
inauspicious
39,824 corpus weight
- inbuilt
inbuilt
39,823 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “impairing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impairing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “impairing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
impairing is uncommon English at frequency #60,176 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "impairment".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for impairing, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is impairing, spelled I-M-P-A-I-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1impairment
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impairing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] those invasions and impairings to which the smaller revenues of the English clergy are daily subject […]
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).