scrounging
"scrounging" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scrounging” is uncommon English (frequency #76,308 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,308
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who scrounges.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scrounging · scrounging · English
scrounging · rank #76,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,308
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SCV
Nearest frequency peer: SCV (+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 “scrounging”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sarmiento
Sarmiento
23,698 corpus weight
- Schrute
Schrute
23,696 corpus weight
- Scioto
Scioto
23,695 corpus weight
- scrounging
scrounging
23,693 corpus weight
- SCV
SCV
23,692 corpus weight
- selva
selva
23,688 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scrounging” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scrounging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scrounging” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scrounging is uncommon English at frequency #76,308 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for scrounging in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is scrounging, spelled S-C-R-O-U-N-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who scrounges.
- 2Material that has been scrounged.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scrounging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What mattered to Vincenzo may have been a temporary lack of money (his wild living led him into frequent scroungings for cash; he was a bit of a spendthrift).
Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.
This word in other languages
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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