pitying
"pitying" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pitying” is uncommon English (frequency #56,369 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,369
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who pities.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pitying · pitying · English
pitying · rank #56,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,369
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Piraeus
Nearest frequency peer: Piraeus (-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 “pitying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- photojourna…
photojournalism
43,638 corpus weight
- Pilbara
Pilbara
43,636 corpus weight
- Pindar
Pindar
43,634 corpus weight
- Piraeus
Piraeus
43,633 corpus weight
- pitying
pitying
43,632 corpus weight
- pixelated
pixelated
43,631 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pitying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pitying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pitying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pitying is uncommon English at frequency #56,369 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who pities.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pitying, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is pitying, spelled P-I-T-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who pities.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pitying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh! the unspeakable privilege to have Him for our Father, who is the Father of mercies and compassions, and those not barren, fruitless pityings, for He is withal the God of all consolations.
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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