postulating
"postulating" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“postulating” is uncommon English (frequency #95,290 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,290
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A postulation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-postulating · postulating · English
postulating · rank #95,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,290
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH potbelly
Nearest frequency peer: potbelly (+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 “postulating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Popovic
Popovic
4,716 corpus weight
- porcini
porcini
4,714 corpus weight
- postulating
postulating
4,711 corpus weight
- potbelly
potbelly
4,710 corpus weight
- Poulson
Poulson
4,709 corpus weight
- prebend
prebend
4,707 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “postulating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postulating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “postulating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
postulating is uncommon English at frequency #95,290 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A postulation.".
postulating has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is postulating, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A postulation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how postulating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] this is that "final demand" to which the experimentalist feels himself forced by the whole trend of history, of a history whose steps he has followed one by one in all his previous postulatings.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).