wilding
"wilding" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wilding” is uncommon English (frequency #50,321 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,321
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A wild apple or apple tree.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wilding · wilding · English
wilding · rank #50,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,321
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wicklow
Nearest frequency peer: Wicklow (-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 “wilding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wetsuit
wetsuit
49,684 corpus weight
- whitten
whitten
49,682 corpus weight
- Wicklow
Wicklow
49,681 corpus weight
- wilding
wilding
49,680 corpus weight
- Wolcott
Wolcott
49,678 corpus weight
- Wyn
Wyn
49,676 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wilding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wilding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wilding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wilding is uncommon English at frequency #50,321 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wilding, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing. The correct English form is wilding, spelled W-I-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A wild apple or apple tree.
- 2Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wilding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.
Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]
Etymology
From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).