quashing
"quashing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quashing” is uncommon English (frequency #74,424 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,424
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action of quashing something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quashing · quashing · English
quashing · rank #74,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH Pyrrhus
Nearest frequency peer: Pyrrhus (-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 “quashing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- punditry
punditry
25,582 corpus weight
- pyridine
pyridine
25,579 corpus weight
- Pyrrhus
Pyrrhus
25,578 corpus weight
- quashing
quashing
25,577 corpus weight
- quickfire
quickfire
25,576 corpus weight
- ragdoll
ragdoll
25,573 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quashing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quashing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quashing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quashing is uncommon English at frequency #74,424 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The action of quashing something.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quashing, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is quashing, spelled Q-U-A-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The action of quashing something.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quashing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).