worming
"worming" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“worming” is uncommon English (frequency #90,076 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,076
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act by which an animal is wormed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-worming · worming · English
worming · rank #90,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,076
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 12,113
- PHOTO-FINISH worktop
Nearest frequency peer: worktop (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “worming”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wolford
Wolford
9,929 corpus weight
- woll
woll
9,928 corpus weight
- Workington
Workington
9,927 corpus weight
- worktop
worktop
9,926 corpus weight
- worming
worming
9,925 corpus weight
- Yalu
Yalu
9,922 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “worming” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “worming” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
worming is uncommon English at frequency #90,076 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for worming in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is worming, spelled W-O-R-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which an animal is wormed.
- 2The tendency of certain yarn or thread to bunch up after being woven.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "worming", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.