reveling
"reveling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reveling” is uncommon English (frequency #66,245 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,245
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of revel
Corpus desk
Index EN-reveling · reveling · English
reveling · rank #66,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,245
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Reuven
Nearest frequency peer: Reuven (-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 “reveling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- replant
replant
33,759 corpus weight
- Reuven
Reuven
33,757 corpus weight
- reveling
reveling
33,756 corpus weight
- riad
riad
33,755 corpus weight
- rial
rial
33,754 corpus weight
- rima
rima
33,753 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reveling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reveling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reveling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reveling is uncommon English at frequency #66,245 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of revel".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for reveling, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English revelynge; equivalent to revel + -ing. The correct English form is reveling, spelled R-E-V-E-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of revel
Etymology
From Middle English revelynge; equivalent to revel + -ing.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).