sieving

noun

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"sieving" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sieving” is uncommon English (frequency #95,415 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#95,415
frequency rank, English
6,566
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of passing something through a sieve.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sieving · sieving · English

sieving · rank #95,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #95,415
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,566
  • PHOTO-FINISH sidle

Nearest frequency peer: sidle (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “sieving”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “sieving” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sieving
PropertyValue
Headwordsieving
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#95,415
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sieving” sits in English frequency

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).sievinglands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “sidle” (#95,414), “Sidcup” (#95,412), “sicario” (#95,411). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sieving is uncommon English at frequency #95,415 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for sieving in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is sieving, spelled S-I-E-V-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    The act of passing something through a sieve.
  2. 2
    Material that has passed through a sieve.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sieving appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The sievings retained on different sieves are washed into separate Petri dishes for further observations or purification by sucrose centrifugation.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sieving"?
"sieving" is spelled S-I-E-V-I-N-G.
What does "sieving" mean?
As a noun, "sieving" means: The act of passing something through a sieve.
What language does "sieving" come from?
"sieving" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sieving", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sicario#95,411sixfold#95,421slacken#95,423Sheppey#95,406

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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list