quashing
"quashing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quashing” is an uncommon English word, ranked #74,424 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #74,424
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The action of quashing something.
| 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) |
Where “quashing” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for quashing is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #74,424 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “quashing”
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- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-A-S-H-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.