uprooting
"uprooting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“uprooting” is uncommon English (frequency #55,170 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,170
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tearing up.
Corpus desk
Index EN-uprooting · uprooting · English
uprooting · rank #55,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,170
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH uppercase
Nearest frequency peer: uppercase (-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 “uprooting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unfollow
unfollow
44,835 corpus weight
- unrefined
unrefined
44,834 corpus weight
- unsportsman…
unsportsmanlike
44,833 corpus weight
- uppercase
uppercase
44,832 corpus weight
- uprooting
uprooting
44,831 corpus weight
- vaporize
vaporize
44,828 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “uprooting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uprooting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “uprooting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
uprooting is uncommon English at frequency #55,170 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tearing up.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for uprooting in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is uprooting, spelled U-P-R-O-O-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A tearing up.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how uprooting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This was reproduced by the only sound that broke their supreme embrace when, a month later, the "arrangement," as her periodical uprootings were called, played the part of the horrible forceps.
[…] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]
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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