slandering
"slandering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slandering” is uncommon English (frequency #53,858 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,858
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of committing slander.
Corpus desk
Index EN-slandering · slandering · English
slandering · rank #53,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,858
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH skidding
Nearest frequency peer: skidding (-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 “slandering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Soares
Soares
46,138 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “slandering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slandering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “slandering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
slandering is uncommon English at frequency #53,858 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of committing slander.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for slandering in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 slandering, spelled S-L-A-N-D-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of committing slander.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slandering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Here are the slanderings, too, going on at home; for, while the husbands are assembled, it would be hard if the wives were not to do the same; and the very least that is to be expected is, that the tea-pot should keep pace with the porter-pot […]
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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