stowing
"stowing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stowing” is uncommon English (frequency #80,005 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,005
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stowing · stowing · English
stowing · rank #80,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,005
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stoichiometry
Nearest frequency peer: stoichiometry (-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 “stowing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- steric
steric
19,999 corpus weight
- stoichiomet…
stoichiometry
19,997 corpus weight
- stowing
stowing
19,996 corpus weight
- structurali…
structuralist
19,993 corpus weight
- stuffer
stuffer
19,992 corpus weight
- subfield
subfield
19,991 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stowing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stowing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stowing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stowing is uncommon English at frequency #80,005 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stowing, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is stowing, spelled S-T-O-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
- 2The act by which something is stowed; stowage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stowing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To render these stoppings effective, they must be built of brick or stone, and plastered with lime, and also supported at one or both sides by stowings of rubbish to provide against the effect of explosions.
Very often, the bales have to be subitted to several transshipments and stowings, for which reason the bales do not all arrive at destination in good condition.
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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