skidding
/ˈskɪdɪŋ/
"skidding" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skidding” is uncommon English (frequency #53,857 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,857
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of skid
Corpus desk
Index EN-skidding · skidding · English
skidding · rank #53,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,857
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slandering
Nearest frequency peer: slandering (+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 “skidding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Shipp
Shipp
46,150 corpus weight
- Shukla
Shukla
46,147 corpus weight
- sippy
sippy
46,146 corpus weight
- skidding
skidding
46,144 corpus weight
- slandering
slandering
46,143 corpus weight
- smooch
smooch
46,141 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “skidding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skidding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈskɪdɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “skidding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
skidding is uncommon English at frequency #53,857 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈskɪdɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of skid".
Zero misspellings are on record for skidding in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 skidding, spelled S-K-I-D-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of skid
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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