unveiling
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "unveiling", 9-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "unveiling" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "unveiling" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
unveiling is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act of unveiling or uncovering.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unveiling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for unveiling is 9 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #21,970 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for unveiling, with forms such as "nuveiling", "uneviling", and "unnveiling". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is unveiling, spelled U-N-V-E-I-L-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act of unveiling or uncovering.
- 2A ceremony for the first public showing of something.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuveiling,uneviling,unnveiling,unveiilng,unveilign,unveilingg,unveilinng,unveilling,unveilnig,unveliing,unvieling,unvveiling,uvneiling
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Misspelling Variants of "unveiling"
Frequency rank: #21,970 in English
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