slighting
"slighting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slighting” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of slight
Corpus desk
Index EN-slighting · slighting · English
slighting · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slighting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “slighting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
slighting is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of slight".
Zero misspellings are on record for slighting in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is slighting, spelled S-L-I-G-H-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of slight
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slighting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His habit of slighting the company chairman was considered to be inappropriate behaviour.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.