ravaging
"ravaging" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ravaging” is uncommon English (frequency #53,804 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,804
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is ravaged.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ravaging · ravaging · English
ravaging · rank #53,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,804
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH realign
Nearest frequency peer: realign (+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 “ravaging”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- radially
radially
46,201 corpus weight
- ravaging
ravaging
46,197 corpus weight
- realign
realign
46,196 corpus weight
- reiter
reiter
46,193 corpus weight
- rending
rending
46,191 corpus weight
- repentant
repentant
46,190 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ravaging” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravaging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ravaging” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ravaging is uncommon English at frequency #53,804 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is ravaged.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ravaging, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is ravaging, spelled R-A-V-A-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is ravaged.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ravaging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I […] had seen how the most flourishing provinces of Germany were reduced to the most miserable condition that ever any country in the world was, by the ravagings of soldiers […]
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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