lazing
/ˈleɪzɪŋ/
"lazing" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lazing” is uncommon English (frequency #77,856 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,856
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of laze
Corpus desk
Index EN-lazing · lazing · English
lazing · rank #77,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,856
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lawndale
Nearest frequency peer: Lawndale (-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 “lazing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Larnaca
Larnaca
22,150 corpus weight
- lates
lates
22,149 corpus weight
- lawfulness
lawfulness
22,147 corpus weight
- Lawndale
Lawndale
22,146 corpus weight
- lazing
lazing
22,145 corpus weight
- leached
leached
22,143 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lazing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lazing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈleɪzɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lazing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lazing is uncommon English at frequency #77,856 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈleɪzɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of laze".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lazing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is lazing, spelled L-A-Z-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of laze
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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