levying
"levying" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“levying” is uncommon English (frequency #56,875 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,875
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is levied.
Corpus desk
Index EN-levying · levying · English
levying · rank #56,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,875
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lett
Nearest frequency peer: Lett (-1 rank slots)
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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 “levying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lemuel
Lemuel
43,130 corpus weight
- Lett
Lett
43,127 corpus weight
- levying
levying
43,126 corpus weight
- Limos
Limos
43,124 corpus weight
- loach
loach
43,122 corpus weight
- loyally
loyally
43,121 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “levying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “levying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
levying is uncommon English at frequency #56,875 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is levied.".
levying doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is levying, spelled L-E-V-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is levied.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how levying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
levyings of war
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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