tacking
"tacking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tacking” is uncommon English (frequency #52,664 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,664
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tacking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tacking” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tacking is uncommon English at frequency #52,664 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
tacking doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is tacking, spelled T-A-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc.
- 2The act of changing tack.
- 3A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose a claim.
- 4The joining together of consecutive periods of possession of property, especially between squatters in cases of adverse possession.
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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Using “tacking”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-A-C-K-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.