secreting
/ˈsiːkɹətɪŋ/
"secreting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“secreting” is uncommon English (frequency #59,004 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,004
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of secret
Corpus desk
Index EN-secreting · secreting · English
secreting · rank #59,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,004
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Seddon
Nearest frequency peer: Seddon (+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 “secreting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Scientologi…
Scientologists
41,003 corpus weight
- secreting
secreting
40,997 corpus weight
- Seddon
Seddon
40,996 corpus weight
- seraph
seraph
40,994 corpus weight
- serf
serf
40,993 corpus weight
- Shaanxi
Shaanxi
40,991 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “secreting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secreting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈsiːkɹətɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “secreting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
secreting is uncommon English at frequency #59,004 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈsiːkɹətɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of secret".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for secreting, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From secret. The correct English form is secreting, spelled S-E-C-R-E-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of secret
Etymology
From secret.
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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