miming
/ˈmaɪmɪŋ/
"miming" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“miming” is uncommon English (frequency #64,539 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,539
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of mime
Corpus desk
Index EN-miming · miming · English
miming · rank #64,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,539
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH midazolam
Nearest frequency peer: midazolam (-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 “miming”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mescaline
mescaline
35,466 corpus weight
- Metis
Metis
35,465 corpus weight
- midazolam
midazolam
35,464 corpus weight
- miming
miming
35,462 corpus weight
- miserly
miserly
35,458 corpus weight
- miya
miya
35,457 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “miming” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈmaɪmɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “miming” in English
Rare enough to double-check
miming is uncommon English at frequency #64,539 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈmaɪmɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of mime".
miming has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is miming, spelled M-I-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of mime
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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