pilings
/ˈpaɪlɪŋz/
"pilings" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pilings” is uncommon English (frequency #78,939 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,939
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of piling
Corpus desk
Index EN-pilings · pilings · English
pilings · rank #78,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,939
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH piledriver
Nearest frequency peer: piledriver (-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 “pilings”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- personalise
personalise
21,066 corpus weight
- photorealis…
photorealistic
21,064 corpus weight
- piledriver
piledriver
21,063 corpus weight
- pilings
pilings
21,062 corpus weight
- pincushion
pincushion
21,060 corpus weight
- plaice
plaice
21,059 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pilings” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilings |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpaɪlɪŋz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pilings” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pilings is uncommon English at frequency #78,939 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpaɪlɪŋz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of piling".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pilings, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is pilings, spelled P-I-L-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1plural of piling
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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