veering
"veering" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“veering” is uncommon English (frequency #50,306 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,306
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A motion that veers; a sudden swerve.
Corpus desk
Index EN-veering · veering · English
veering · rank #50,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,306
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vellum
Nearest frequency peer: vellum (+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 “veering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unzip
unzip
49,699 corpus weight
- Upham
Upham
49,698 corpus weight
- Vallarta
Vallarta
49,697 corpus weight
- veering
veering
49,695 corpus weight
- vellum
vellum
49,694 corpus weight
- visualise
visualise
49,692 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “veering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “veering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
veering is uncommon English at frequency #50,306 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A motion that veers; a sudden swerve.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for veering, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is veering, spelled V-E-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A motion that veers; a sudden swerve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how veering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[H]er mood, though consistently excited, was labile in affect, with sudden veerings from stormy hypomania to fearfulness and agitated depression.
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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