modding
"modding" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“modding” is uncommon English (frequency #53,106 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,106
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of mod
Corpus desk
Index EN-modding · modding · English
modding · rank #53,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,106
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mobo
Nearest frequency peer: mobo (-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 “modding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- miRNA
miRNA
46,900 corpus weight
- Mitcham
Mitcham
46,897 corpus weight
- mobo
mobo
46,896 corpus weight
- modding
modding
46,895 corpus weight
- monopolistic
monopolistic
46,891 corpus weight
- monotheism
monotheism
46,890 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “modding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “modding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
modding is uncommon English at frequency #53,106 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of mod".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for modding, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is modding, spelled M-O-D-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of mod
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how modding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is where a large number of young rail enthusiasts are choosing to congregate online and discuss gaming, modding and railways in general.
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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