relishing
"relishing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“relishing” is uncommon English (frequency #53,208 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,208
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appetizing, delightful.
Corpus desk
Index EN-relishing · relishing · English
relishing · rank #53,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,208
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH remarriage
Nearest frequency peer: remarriage (+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 “relishing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reforestati…
reforestation
46,798 corpus weight
- refunding
refunding
46,797 corpus weight
- regretfully
regretfully
46,796 corpus weight
- relishing
relishing
46,793 corpus weight
- remarriage
remarriage
46,792 corpus weight
- Renaud
Renaud
46,791 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “relishing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relishing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “relishing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
relishing is uncommon English at frequency #53,208 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for relishing in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is relishing, spelled R-E-L-I-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Appetizing, delightful.
- 2That relishes something; showing relish or enjoyment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how relishing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]he pleasure I enjoyed in the little I had read, was changed into disgust, when I reflected on the small prospect I had of finding the greater part of this relishing story […].
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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