parachuting
"parachuting" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parachuting” is uncommon English (frequency #55,002 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,002
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The sport or activity of jumping with a parachute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parachuting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “parachuting” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
parachuting is uncommon English at frequency #55,002 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The sport or activity of jumping with a parachute.".
Zero misspellings are on record for parachuting in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From parachute + -ing. The correct English form is parachuting, spelled P-A-R-A-C-H-U-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The sport or activity of jumping with a parachute.
Etymology
From parachute + -ing.
This word in other languages
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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Using “parachuting”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-R-A-C-H-U-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.