rimming
/ˈɹɪmɪŋ/
"rimming" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rimming” is uncommon English (frequency #66,994 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,994
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of rim
Corpus desk
Index EN-rimming · rimming · English
rimming · rank #66,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,994
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rinne
Nearest frequency peer: Rinne (+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 “rimming”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- resourcing
resourcing
33,011 corpus weight
- rimming
rimming
33,007 corpus weight
- Rinne
Rinne
33,006 corpus weight
- romanticize
romanticize
33,004 corpus weight
- roomed
roomed
33,003 corpus weight
- roshi
roshi
33,001 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rimming” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rimming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɹɪmɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rimming” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rimming is uncommon English at frequency #66,994 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɹɪmɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of rim".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rimming in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is rimming, spelled R-I-M-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of rim
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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