pouncing
/ˈpaʊnsɪŋ/
"pouncing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pouncing” is uncommon English (frequency #74,405 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,405
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of pounce
Corpus desk
Index EN-pouncing · pouncing · English
pouncing · rank #74,405 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,405
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH POSIX
Nearest frequency peer: POSIX (-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 “pouncing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pointlessly
pointlessly
25,600 corpus weight
- POSIX
POSIX
25,597 corpus weight
- pouncing
pouncing
25,596 corpus weight
- pred
pred
25,595 corpus weight
- preprint
preprint
25,594 corpus weight
- prepubescent
prepubescent
25,593 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pouncing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pouncing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈpaʊnsɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pouncing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pouncing is uncommon English at frequency #74,405 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈpaʊnsɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of pounce".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pouncing, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is pouncing, spelled P-O-U-N-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of pounce
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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