skimping
/ˈskɪmpɪŋ/
"skimping" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skimping” is uncommon English (frequency #94,263 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,263
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of skimp
Corpus desk
Index EN-skimping · skimping · English
skimping · rank #94,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,263
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slake
Nearest frequency peer: slake (+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 “skimping”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shitted
shitted
5,748 corpus weight
- skimping
skimping
5,738 corpus weight
- slake
slake
5,737 corpus weight
- Sleaford
Sleaford
5,735 corpus weight
- sleepily
sleepily
5,734 corpus weight
- smolder
smolder
5,731 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “skimping” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skimping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈskɪmpɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “skimping” in English
Rare enough to double-check
skimping is uncommon English at frequency #94,263 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈskɪmpɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of skimp".
skimping doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is skimping, spelled S-K-I-M-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of skimp
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).