leavings
"leavings" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leavings” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leavings · leavings · English
leavings · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leavings |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leavings” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leavings is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for leavings, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Participial form of "leave". The correct English form is leavings, spelled L-E-A-V-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leavings appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The leavings were thrown to the dogs.
The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.
Etymology
Participial form of "leave".
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.