opining
"opining" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“opining” is uncommon English (frequency #87,636 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,636
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of giving one's opinion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-opining · opining · English
opining · rank #87,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,636
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Onitsha
Nearest frequency peer: Onitsha (-2 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 “opining”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- obstetrical
obstetrical
12,373 corpus weight
- Onitsha
Onitsha
12,367 corpus weight
- opining
opining
12,365 corpus weight
- Oranje
Oranje
12,363 corpus weight
- Ostrovsky
Ostrovsky
12,359 corpus weight
- outplay
outplay
12,357 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “opining” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opining |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “opining” in English
Rare enough to double-check
opining is uncommon English at frequency #87,636 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of giving one's opinion.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for opining, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is opining, spelled O-P-I-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of giving one's opinion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how opining appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now, sailors love marvels, and love to repeat them. And from many an old shipmate I have heard various sage opinings, concerning the phenomenon in question.
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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