swooning
"swooning" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swooning” is uncommon English (frequency #54,521 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,521
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A swoon or faint.
Corpus desk
Index EN-swooning · swooning · English
swooning · rank #54,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,521
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH swisher
Nearest frequency peer: swisher (-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 “swooning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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45,485 corpus weight
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45,481 corpus weight
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45,480 corpus weight
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45,479 corpus weight
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45,477 corpus weight
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45,474 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “swooning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swooning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “swooning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
swooning is uncommon English at frequency #54,521 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A swoon or faint.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for swooning, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 swooning, spelled S-W-O-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A swoon or faint.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how swooning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
People of weak nerves or delicate constitutions are liable to swoonings or fainting fits.
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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