smiting
"smiting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smiting” is uncommon English (frequency #89,916 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,916
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of smite
Corpus desk
Index EN-smiting · smiting · English
smiting · rank #89,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,916
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sneddon
Nearest frequency peer: Sneddon (+3 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 “smiting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- signee
signee
10,094 corpus weight
- sixer
sixer
10,092 corpus weight
- skittle
skittle
10,089 corpus weight
- smiting
smiting
10,085 corpus weight
- Sneddon
Sneddon
10,082 corpus weight
- Soleimani
Soleimani
10,079 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “smiting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smiting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “smiting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
smiting is uncommon English at frequency #89,916 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of smite".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for smiting, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English smytinge, smitende, smytende, smitand, from Old English smītende, from Proto-Germanic *smītandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to throw, hurl, bespatter”), equivalent to smite + -ing. The correct English form is smiting, spelled S-M-I-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of smite
Etymology
From Middle English smytinge, smitende, smytende, smitand, from Old English smītende, from Proto-Germanic *smītandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to throw, hurl, bespatter”), equivalent to smite + -ing.
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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