proselytizing
"proselytizing" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“proselytizing” is uncommon English (frequency #55,035 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,035
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - proselytism
Corpus desk
Index EN-proselytizing · proselytizing · English
proselytizing · rank #55,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,035
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pritzker
Nearest frequency peer: Pritzker (-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 “proselytizing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- preps
preps
44,969 corpus weight
- presidente
presidente
44,968 corpus weight
- Pritzker
Pritzker
44,967 corpus weight
- proselytizi…
proselytizing
44,966 corpus weight
- pud
pud
44,964 corpus weight
- pudgy
pudgy
44,963 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “proselytizing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proselytizing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #55,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “proselytizing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
proselytizing is uncommon English at frequency #55,035 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "proselytism".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for proselytizing, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 proselytizing, spelled P-R-O-S-E-L-Y-T-I-Z-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1proselytism
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how proselytizing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] a radical alteration in the very conception of female sexuality, an alteration that began with the proselytizings of Free Love advocates like Victoria Woodhull and Emma Goldman […]
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).