voyaging
"voyaging" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“voyaging” is uncommon English (frequency #85,922 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,922
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Act of travelling or going on a voyage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-voyaging · voyaging · English
voyaging · rank #85,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,922
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Vliet
Nearest frequency peer: Vliet (-2 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 “voyaging”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- virulently
virulently
14,083 corpus weight
- vividness
vividness
14,082 corpus weight
- Vliet
Vliet
14,081 corpus weight
- voyaging
voyaging
14,079 corpus weight
- waggon
waggon
14,075 corpus weight
- Waitangi
Waitangi
14,074 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “voyaging” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voyaging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “voyaging” in English
Rare enough to double-check
voyaging is uncommon English at frequency #85,922 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Act of travelling or going on a voyage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for voyaging in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is voyaging, spelled V-O-Y-A-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Act of travelling or going on a voyage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voyaging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).