yellowing
"yellowing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yellowing” is uncommon English (frequency #53,962 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,962
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process of turning yellow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yellowing · yellowing · English
yellowing · rank #53,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,962
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yanukovych
Nearest frequency peer: Yanukovych (-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 “yellowing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wooly
wooly
46,043 corpus weight
- wuss
wuss
46,042 corpus weight
- Yanukovych
Yanukovych
46,040 corpus weight
- yellowing
yellowing
46,039 corpus weight
- Zan
Zan
46,037 corpus weight
- zod
zod
46,035 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yellowing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yellowing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yellowing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yellowing is uncommon English at frequency #53,962 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The process of turning yellow.".
Zero misspellings are on record for yellowing in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is yellowing, spelled Y-E-L-L-O-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The process of turning yellow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yellowing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rusty spotting and yellowings occur on the lower basal leaves.
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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