wafting
"wafting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wafting” is uncommon English (frequency #59,114 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,114
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wafting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wafting” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wafting is uncommon English at frequency #59,114 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wafting, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is wafting, spelled W-A-F-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
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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- The one correct English spelling is W-A-F-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.