throating
"throating" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“throating” is uncommon English (frequency #99,936 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,936
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of throat
Corpus desk
Index EN-throating · throating · English
throating · rank #99,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,936
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH thole
Nearest frequency peer: thole (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “throating”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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66 corpus weight
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65 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “throating” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | throating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “throating” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
throating is uncommon English at frequency #99,936 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of throat".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for throating, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From throat + -ing. The correct English form is throating, spelled T-H-R-O-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of throat
Etymology
From throat + -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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