caking
/ˈkeɪkɪŋ/
"caking" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caking” is uncommon English (frequency #76,613 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,613
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of cake
Corpus desk
Index EN-caking · caking · English
caking · rank #76,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,613
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH caird
Nearest frequency peer: caird (-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 “caking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- burdon
burdon
23,393 corpus weight
- buttonhole
buttonhole
23,392 corpus weight
- cadherin
cadherin
23,390 corpus weight
- caird
caird
23,389 corpus weight
- caking
caking
23,388 corpus weight
- caned
caned
23,385 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “caking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkeɪkɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caking is uncommon English at frequency #76,613 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkeɪkɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of cake".
caking doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is caking, spelled C-A-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of cake
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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