cajoling
"cajoling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cajoling” is uncommon English (frequency #83,091 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,091
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of cajole
Corpus desk
Index EN-cajoling · cajoling · English
cajoling · rank #83,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,091
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Calma
Nearest frequency peer: Calma (+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 “cajoling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bused
bused
16,914 corpus weight
- businessper…
businessperson
16,913 corpus weight
- cajoling
cajoling
16,910 corpus weight
- Calma
Calma
16,909 corpus weight
- Campeche
Campeche
16,907 corpus weight
- canticle
canticle
16,906 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cajoling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cajoling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cajoling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cajoling is uncommon English at frequency #83,091 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of cajole".
Zero misspellings are on record for cajoling in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 cajoling, spelled C-A-J-O-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of cajole
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cajoling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The zookeeper was cajoling the lion back into its cage.
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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