man-eating
"man-eating" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“man-eating” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inclined to eat human flesh; that attacks and kills humans for food.
Corpus desk
Index EN-man-eating · man-eating · English
man-eating · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | man-eating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “man-eating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
man-eating is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inclined to eat human flesh; that attacks and kills humans for food.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for man-eating in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is man-eating, spelled M-A-N---E-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Inclined to eat human flesh; that attacks and kills humans for food.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how man-eating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]he den of a man-eating tiger, or a mad dog, could not be more dreaded.
The Lumbardar scouted the idea; the only man-eating leopard in those parts has been killed by the valorous sahib-thanks be to Allah!
This word in other languages
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.