subsiding
"subsiding" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“subsiding” is uncommon English (frequency #70,302 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,302
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something subsides.
Corpus desk
Index EN-subsiding · subsiding · English
subsiding · rank #70,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,302
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH substructure
Nearest frequency peer: substructure (+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 “subsiding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stonehaven
Stonehaven
29,705 corpus weight
- stroma
stroma
29,701 corpus weight
- subsiding
subsiding
29,699 corpus weight
- substructure
substructure
29,698 corpus weight
- sunning
sunning
29,697 corpus weight
- superego
superego
29,696 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “subsiding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subsiding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “subsiding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
subsiding is uncommon English at frequency #70,302 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something subsides.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for subsiding in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is subsiding, spelled S-U-B-S-I-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something subsides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how subsiding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With such violent subterranean forces in operation, even at the present day, it is easy to apprehend how numerous must have been the uprisings and subsidings of the solid matter of the earth in this region during bye-gone ages.
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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