caging
"caging" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caging” is uncommon English (frequency #85,075 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,075
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of placing or trapping something in a cage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caging · caging · English
caging · rank #85,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,075
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Caledon
Nearest frequency peer: Caledon (+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 “caging”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bua
Bua
14,931 corpus weight
- Buckminster
Buckminster
14,930 corpus weight
- bungo
bungo
14,928 corpus weight
- caging
caging
14,926 corpus weight
- Caledon
Caledon
14,925 corpus weight
- calligraphic
calligraphic
14,922 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “caging” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caging” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caging is uncommon English at frequency #85,075 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of placing or trapping something in a cage.".
Zero misspellings are on record for caging in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct English form is caging, spelled C-A-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of placing or trapping something in a cage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Commencing next summer, 30,000 tonnes of cliff face will be removed, and mesh-and-bolt caging installed on a three-mile section to stabilise the surface and prevent rock falls.
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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