seconding
"seconding" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seconding” is uncommon English (frequency #82,765 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,765
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The agreement of a second person to an initial proposal or motion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-seconding · seconding · English
seconding · rank #82,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,765
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seasickness
Nearest frequency peer: seasickness (-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 “seconding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- scraggly
scraggly
17,241 corpus weight
- scrotal
scrotal
17,240 corpus weight
- seasickness
seasickness
17,237 corpus weight
- seconding
seconding
17,236 corpus weight
- sempre
sempre
17,234 corpus weight
- sensorimotor
sensorimotor
17,232 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “seconding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seconding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “seconding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
seconding is uncommon English at frequency #82,765 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
seconding has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is seconding, spelled S-E-C-O-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The agreement of a second person to an initial proposal or motion.
- 2Temporary transfer from normal duty to another assignment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seconding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The nominations and the secondings of candidates for the 1973 election of the various officers and directors of The American Philatelic Society were concluded May 31, 1973, and the final listing appears below.
Having successfully completed their two secondings, the students were qualified to take out a case on their own.
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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