muscling
"muscling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“muscling” is uncommon English (frequency #97,336 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,336
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - muscles in the body, meant collectively
Corpus desk
Index EN-muscling · muscling · English
muscling · rank #97,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,336
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mystically
Nearest frequency peer: mystically (+3 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 “muscling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mrazek
Mrazek
2,672 corpus weight
- Mulhall
Mulhall
2,670 corpus weight
- murderess
murderess
2,669 corpus weight
- muscling
muscling
2,665 corpus weight
- mystically
mystically
2,662 corpus weight
- Nanos
Nanos
2,658 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “muscling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muscling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “muscling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
muscling is uncommon English at frequency #97,336 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
muscling doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is muscling, spelled M-U-S-C-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1muscles in the body, meant collectively
- 2the process of muscle formation or growth
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muscling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The legs are set wide apart due to the very thick muscling.
The effects of muscling were of secondary importance to the effects of fatness.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).