quelling
"quelling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quelling” is uncommon English (frequency #63,168 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,168
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is quelled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quelling · quelling · English
quelling · rank #63,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,168
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH quiescent
Nearest frequency peer: quiescent (+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 “quelling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- quadrature
quadrature
36,836 corpus weight
- quadriplegic
quadriplegic
36,835 corpus weight
- quelling
quelling
36,833 corpus weight
- quiescent
quiescent
36,832 corpus weight
- quintessence
quintessence
36,831 corpus weight
- quizzing
quizzing
36,830 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quelling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quelling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quelling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quelling is uncommon English at frequency #63,168 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quelling, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is quelling, spelled Q-U-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is quelled.
- 2RNA interference.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quelling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
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).