misting
/ˈmɪstɪŋ/
"misting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“misting” is uncommon English (frequency #82,549 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,549
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of mist
Corpus desk
Index EN-misting · misting · English
misting · rank #82,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,549
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mohammadi
Nearest frequency peer: Mohammadi (+4 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 “misting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Meisner
Meisner
17,462 corpus weight
- merchandiser
merchandiser
17,459 corpus weight
- Midgard
Midgard
17,457 corpus weight
- misting
misting
17,452 corpus weight
- Mohammadi
Mohammadi
17,448 corpus weight
- monkfish
monkfish
17,446 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “misting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | misting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈmɪstɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “misting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
misting is uncommon English at frequency #82,549 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈmɪstɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of mist".
No generated misspelling entries exist for misting in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is misting, spelled M-I-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of mist
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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