motioning
"motioning" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“motioning” is uncommon English (frequency #85,541 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,541
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - movement
Corpus desk
Index EN-motioning · motioning · English
motioning · rank #85,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,541
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Morimoto
Nearest frequency peer: Morimoto (-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 “motioning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- moley
moley
14,469 corpus weight
- Moncrief
Moncrief
14,467 corpus weight
- Morimoto
Morimoto
14,461 corpus weight
- motioning
motioning
14,460 corpus weight
- multifocal
multifocal
14,456 corpus weight
- musicologist
musicologist
14,452 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “motioning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motioning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “motioning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
motioning is uncommon English at frequency #85,541 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "movement".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for motioning, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is motioning, spelled M-O-T-I-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1movement
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how motioning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned By gesture she was pretending and by words and by the scarcely perceptible motionings of her eyelids […]
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).