jailing
/ˈd͡ʒeɪlɪŋ/
"jailing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jailing” is uncommon English (frequency #50,607 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,607
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of jail
Corpus desk
Index EN-jailing · jailing · English
jailing · rank #50,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,607
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Isuzu
Nearest frequency peer: Isuzu (-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 “jailing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- irises
irises
49,399 corpus weight
- ISAF
ISAF
49,398 corpus weight
- isolationism
isolationism
49,396 corpus weight
- Isuzu
Isuzu
49,395 corpus weight
- jailing
jailing
49,394 corpus weight
- jalapeño
jalapeño
49,393 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “jailing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jailing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒeɪlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jailing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jailing is uncommon English at frequency #50,607 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈd͡ʒeɪlɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of jail".
jailing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is jailing, spelled J-A-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of jail
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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