lancing
"lancing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lancing” is uncommon English (frequency #79,693 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,693
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is lanced.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lancing · lancing · English
lancing · rank #79,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,693
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Landi
Nearest frequency peer: Landi (+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 “lancing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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lactase
20,312 corpus weight
- lacustrine
lacustrine
20,311 corpus weight
- lancing
lancing
20,308 corpus weight
- Landi
Landi
20,307 corpus weight
- Lardner
Lardner
20,306 corpus weight
- lath
lath
20,305 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lancing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lancing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lancing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lancing is uncommon English at frequency #79,693 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is lanced.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lancing, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is lancing, spelled L-A-N-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is lanced.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lancing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).