pursing
"pursing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pursing” is uncommon English (frequency #76,244 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,244
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An expression or motion that purses.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pursing · pursing · English
pursing · rank #76,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,244
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pulver
Nearest frequency peer: pulver (-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 “pursing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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proscenium
23,761 corpus weight
- pseudoephed…
pseudoephedrine
23,760 corpus weight
- pulver
pulver
23,758 corpus weight
- pursing
pursing
23,757 corpus weight
- Putrajaya
Putrajaya
23,756 corpus weight
- puzzlement
puzzlement
23,755 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pursing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pursing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pursing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pursing is uncommon English at frequency #76,244 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An expression or motion that purses.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pursing, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is pursing, spelled P-U-R-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An expression or motion that purses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pursing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The muscles about the mouth exhibited puckering movements and occasional pursings and poutings of the lips.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).