modding

verb

"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

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “modding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for modding
PropertyValue
Headwordmodding
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,106
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “modding” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).moddingfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “mobo” (#53,105), “Mitcham” (#53,104), “monopolistic” (#53,110). Among 4,057 “M” headwords, “modding” is #53,106. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of mod

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how modding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "modding"?
"modding" is spelled M-O-D-D-I-N-G.
What does "modding" mean?
As a verb, "modding" means: present participle and gerund of mod
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "modding", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list