marauding
"marauding" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marauding” is uncommon English (frequency #50,653 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,653
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - raiding and pillaging
Corpus desk
Index EN-marauding · marauding · English
marauding · rank #50,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,653
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH manoeuvring
Nearest frequency peer: manoeuvring (-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 “marauding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- loveliness
loveliness
49,354 corpus weight
- luminance
luminance
49,353 corpus weight
- mandir
mandir
49,350 corpus weight
- manoeuvring
manoeuvring
49,349 corpus weight
- marauding
marauding
49,348 corpus weight
- McAdams
McAdams
49,343 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marauding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marauding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “marauding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marauding is uncommon English at frequency #50,653 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
marauding doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is marauding, spelled M-A-R-A-U-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1raiding and pillaging
- 2killing in wanton fashion.
- 3killing domestic animals.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marauding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a marauding band
A marauding stoat entered the rabbit warren and killed fifteen bunnies.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).