quelling
"quelling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quelling” is uncommon English (frequency #63,168 among 2,880 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,168
- frequency rank, English
- 2,880
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act by which something is quelled.
| 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) |
Where “quelling” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quelling is uncommon English at frequency #63,168 among 2,880 “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.
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 “quelling”
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- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-E-L-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.