snuffing
"snuffing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snuffing” is uncommon English (frequency #92,088 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,088
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out.
Corpus desk
Index EN-snuffing · snuffing · English
snuffing · rank #92,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,088
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH snowbound
Nearest frequency peer: snowbound (-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 “snuffing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- silvan
silvan
7,922 corpus weight
- skitter
skitter
7,917 corpus weight
- snowbound
snowbound
7,914 corpus weight
- snuffing
snuffing
7,913 corpus weight
- Southlake
Southlake
7,907 corpus weight
- spellcheck
spellcheck
7,903 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “snuffing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snuffing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “snuffing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
snuffing is uncommon English at frequency #92,088 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for snuffing in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 snuffing, spelled S-N-U-F-F-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out.
- 2The act of one who, or that which, snuffs or makes a low sniffing sound.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snuffing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then there were frantic snuffings under the doors, and a general agitation.
It was early on the fifteenth day that I heard a curious familiar sequence of sounds in the kitchen, and, listening, identified it as the snuffing and scratching of a dog.
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).