rabbit holing

noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

rabbit holing is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fait de perdre son temps.

Key facts for rabbit holing
PropertyValue
Headwordrabbit holing
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

rabbit holing is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rabbit holing is 13 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rabbit holing in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rabbit holing, spelled R-A-B-B-I-T- -H-O-L-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fait de perdre son temps.
  2. 2
    Trip psychédélique.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rabbit holing"?
"rabbit holing" is spelled R-A-B-B-I-T- -H-O-L-I-N-G.
What does "rabbit holing" mean?
As a noun, "rabbit holing" means: Fait de perdre son temps.
What language does "rabbit holing" come from?
"rabbit holing" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.