stabling
"stabling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stabling” is uncommon English (frequency #89,938 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,938
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of stable
Corpus desk
Index EN-stabling · stabling · English
stabling · rank #89,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,938
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sprue
Nearest frequency peer: sprue (-2 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 “stabling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- spectrophot…
spectrophotometer
10,071 corpus weight
- speculative…
speculatively
10,070 corpus weight
- sprue
sprue
10,065 corpus weight
- stabling
stabling
10,063 corpus weight
- stakeout
stakeout
10,061 corpus weight
- stereochemi…
stereochemistry
10,056 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stabling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stabling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stabling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stabling is uncommon English at frequency #89,938 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of stable".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stabling in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is stabling, spelled S-T-A-B-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of stable
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stabling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.
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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