permeating
"permeating" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“permeating” is uncommon English (frequency #71,785 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,785
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of permeate
Corpus desk
Index EN-permeating · permeating · English
permeating · rank #71,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,785
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH perse
Nearest frequency peer: perse (+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 “permeating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Pasig
Pasig
28,221 corpus weight
- PASOK
PASOK
28,220 corpus weight
- permeating
permeating
28,216 corpus weight
- perse
perse
28,214 corpus weight
- Petronius
Petronius
28,213 corpus weight
- Pfeifer
Pfeifer
28,212 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “permeating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permeating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “permeating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
permeating is uncommon English at frequency #71,785 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of permeate".
No generated misspelling entries exist for permeating in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is permeating, spelled P-E-R-M-E-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of permeate
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how permeating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating 'Russification'), I was a railway buff.
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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