soldiering
"soldiering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soldiering” is uncommon English (frequency #64,721 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,721
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The work of a soldier; military action.
Corpus desk
Index EN-soldiering · soldiering · English
soldiering · rank #64,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,721
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH soapstone
Nearest frequency peer: soapstone (-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 “soldiering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- SKS
SKS
35,285 corpus weight
- soapstone
soapstone
35,281 corpus weight
- soldiering
soldiering
35,280 corpus weight
- Soong
Soong
35,279 corpus weight
- soundbite
soundbite
35,278 corpus weight
- spect
spect
35,276 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “soldiering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soldiering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “soldiering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
soldiering is uncommon English at frequency #64,721 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The work of a soldier; military action.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for soldiering, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is soldiering, spelled S-O-L-D-I-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The work of a soldier; military action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soldiering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thus the two comrades came back from their soldierings to their humble homes, from which Lincoln was soon to start on the way marked out for him by Providence, with strides which no comrade, with whatever goodwill, might hope to follow.
All modern armies rely on veritable fleets of drones for routine soldiering (static garrisons, patrols, etc.).
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).