stenting
"stenting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stenting” is uncommon English (frequency #95,451 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,451
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The surgical act of placing a stent, or supporting tube, into an artery, esophagus, or other passage or conduit in the body.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stenting · stenting · English
stenting · rank #95,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,451
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stamen
Nearest frequency peer: stamen (-5 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 “stenting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Spiegelman
Spiegelman
4,561 corpus weight
- Spohr
Spohr
4,560 corpus weight
- Stabenow
Stabenow
4,557 corpus weight
- Stallard
Stallard
4,556 corpus weight
- stamen
stamen
4,555 corpus weight
- stenting
stenting
4,550 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stenting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stenting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stenting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stenting is uncommon English at frequency #95,451 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The surgical act of placing a stent, or supporting tube, into an artery, esophagus, or other passage or conduit in the body.".
stenting doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 stenting, spelled S-T-E-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The surgical act of placing a stent, or supporting tube, into an artery, esophagus, or other passage or conduit in the body.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stenting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The chest pains were relieved by coronary stenting.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).