levitating
/ˈlɛvɪteɪtɪŋ/
"levitating" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“levitating” is uncommon English (frequency #59,509 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,509
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of levitate
Corpus desk
Index EN-levitating · levitating · English
levitating · rank #59,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,509
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH linseed
Nearest frequency peer: linseed (+2 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 “levitating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- leaden
leaden
40,499 corpus weight
- levitating
levitating
40,492 corpus weight
- linseed
linseed
40,490 corpus weight
- lithosphere
lithosphere
40,489 corpus weight
- loafer
loafer
40,488 corpus weight
- Lundberg
Lundberg
40,486 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “levitating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levitating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈlɛvɪteɪtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “levitating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
levitating is uncommon English at frequency #59,509 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈlɛvɪteɪtɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of levitate".
levitating has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is levitating, spelled L-E-V-I-T-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of levitate
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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