melding
"melding" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“melding” is uncommon English (frequency #54,935 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,935
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of meld
Corpus desk
Index EN-melding · melding · English
melding · rank #54,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,935
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH meanness
Nearest frequency peer: meanness (-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 “melding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McWilliams
McWilliams
45,069 corpus weight
- meanie
meanie
45,068 corpus weight
- meanness
meanness
45,067 corpus weight
- melding
melding
45,066 corpus weight
- mellowed
mellowed
45,065 corpus weight
- memoranda
memoranda
45,064 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “melding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “melding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
melding is uncommon English at frequency #54,935 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of meld".
Zero misspellings are on record for melding in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From meld + -ing. The correct English form is melding, spelled M-E-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of meld
Etymology
From meld + -ing.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).