threshing
"threshing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“threshing” is uncommon English (frequency #57,125 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,125
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of thresh
Corpus desk
Index EN-threshing · threshing · English
threshing · rank #57,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,125
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Thibault
Nearest frequency peer: Thibault (-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 “threshing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Temecula
Temecula
42,880 corpus weight
- thalamus
thalamus
42,879 corpus weight
- Thibault
Thibault
42,877 corpus weight
- threshing
threshing
42,876 corpus weight
- Thwaites
Thwaites
42,874 corpus weight
- Tigre
Tigre
42,873 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “threshing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | threshing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “threshing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
threshing is uncommon English at frequency #57,125 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of thresh".
threshing has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English thresshyng; equivalent to thresh + -ing. The correct English form is threshing, spelled T-H-R-E-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of thresh
Etymology
From Middle English thresshyng; equivalent to thresh + -ing.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).