refrigerating
"refrigerating" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“refrigerating” is uncommon English (frequency #86,686 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,686
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of refrigerate
Corpus desk
Index EN-refrigerating · refrigerating · English
refrigerating · rank #86,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,686
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rediculous
Nearest frequency peer: rediculous (-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 “refrigerating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reall
reall
13,319 corpus weight
- recognizably
recognizably
13,318 corpus weight
- recordable
recordable
13,317 corpus weight
- rediculous
rediculous
13,316 corpus weight
- refrigerati…
refrigerating
13,315 corpus weight
- rekt
rekt
13,313 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “refrigerating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refrigerating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #86,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “refrigerating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
refrigerating is uncommon English at frequency #86,686 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of refrigerate".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for refrigerating, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is refrigerating, spelled R-E-F-R-I-G-E-R-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of refrigerate
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how refrigerating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They are refrigerating the leftovers because they plan to eat them for dinner tomorrow.
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).