spearing
"spearing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spearing” is uncommon English (frequency #63,264 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,264
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The stabbing of something with a spear.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spearing · spearing · English
spearing · rank #63,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,264
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spiritus
Nearest frequency peer: spiritus (+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 “spearing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- softie
softie
36,741 corpus weight
- souk
souk
36,739 corpus weight
- spearing
spearing
36,737 corpus weight
- spiritus
spiritus
36,736 corpus weight
- spoilage
spoilage
36,735 corpus weight
- sputum
sputum
36,734 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spearing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spearing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spearing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spearing is uncommon English at frequency #63,264 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The stabbing of something with a spear.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for spearing, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 spearing, spelled S-P-E-A-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The stabbing of something with a spear.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spearing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.
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).