lapsing
/ˈlæpsɪŋ/
"lapsing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lapsing” is uncommon English (frequency #96,157 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,157
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of lapse
Corpus desk
Index EN-lapsing · lapsing · English
lapsing · rank #96,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,157
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Laserdisc
Nearest frequency peer: Laserdisc (+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 “lapsing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- landman
landman
3,846 corpus weight
- lapsing
lapsing
3,844 corpus weight
- Laserdisc
Laserdisc
3,843 corpus weight
- Lebensraum
Lebensraum
3,842 corpus weight
- Lebesgue
Lebesgue
3,841 corpus weight
- Lebo
Lebo
3,840 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lapsing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapsing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈlæpsɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lapsing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lapsing is uncommon English at frequency #96,157 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈlæpsɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of lapse".
lapsing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is lapsing, spelled L-A-P-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of lapse
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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