stupefying
"stupefying" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stupefying” is uncommon English (frequency #94,293 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,293
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That causes stupefaction.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stupefying · stupefying · English
stupefying · rank #94,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,293
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subcarrier
Nearest frequency peer: subcarrier (+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 “stupefying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stirner
Stirner
5,713 corpus weight
- stolid
stolid
5,712 corpus weight
- streptococc…
streptococcal
5,711 corpus weight
- stupefying
stupefying
5,708 corpus weight
- subcarrier
subcarrier
5,706 corpus weight
- subdistrict
subdistrict
5,705 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stupefying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stupefying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stupefying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stupefying is uncommon English at frequency #94,293 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That causes stupefaction.".
No misspelling variants are generated for stupefying in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is stupefying, spelled S-T-U-P-E-F-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That causes stupefaction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stupefying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Detectives on Thursday arrested and charged a man and his girlfriend who they allege were running an illegal prostitution racket involving sexual slavery, the administration of "stupefying drugs" and secret filming of the girls with clients.
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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