placings
/ˈpleɪsɪŋz/
"placings" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“placings” is uncommon English (frequency #58,934 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,934
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of placing
Corpus desk
Index EN-placings · placings · English
placings · rank #58,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,934
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH piña
Nearest frequency peer: piña (-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 “placings”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- picayune
picayune
41,071 corpus weight
- piggies
piggies
41,070 corpus weight
- piña
piña
41,068 corpus weight
- placings
placings
41,067 corpus weight
- playset
playset
41,065 corpus weight
- polyphonic
polyphonic
41,063 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “placings” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | placings |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpleɪsɪŋz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “placings” in English
Rare enough to double-check
placings is uncommon English at frequency #58,934 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpleɪsɪŋz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of placing".
No misspelling variants are generated for placings in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is placings, spelled P-L-A-C-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1plural of placing
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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