reeking
/ˈɹiːkɪŋ/
"reeking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reeking” is uncommon English (frequency #63,192 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,192
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of reek
Corpus desk
Index EN-reeking · reeking · English
reeking · rank #63,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,192
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reem
Nearest frequency peer: reem (+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 “reeking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- redeploy
redeploy
36,812 corpus weight
- redheaded
redheaded
36,811 corpus weight
- reeking
reeking
36,809 corpus weight
- reem
reem
36,808 corpus weight
- reexamine
reexamine
36,807 corpus weight
- resubmit
resubmit
36,805 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reeking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reeking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɹiːkɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reeking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reeking is uncommon English at frequency #63,192 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɹiːkɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of reek".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reeking, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is reeking, spelled R-E-E-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of reek
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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