rending
"rending" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rending” is uncommon English (frequency #53,810 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,810
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is rent, or torn.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rending · rending · English
rending · rank #53,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,810
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH repentant
Nearest frequency peer: repentant (+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 “rending”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reiter
reiter
46,193 corpus weight
- rending
rending
46,191 corpus weight
- repentant
repentant
46,190 corpus weight
- reportable
reportable
46,189 corpus weight
- reprogram
reprogram
46,188 corpus weight
- rescheduling
rescheduling
46,187 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rending” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rending |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rending” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rending is uncommon English at frequency #53,810 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is rent, or torn.".
Zero misspellings are on record for rending in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is rending, spelled R-E-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is rent, or torn.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rending appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
rendings of garments
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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