caroling
/ˈkæɹəlɪŋ/
"caroling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caroling” is uncommon English (frequency #92,433 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,433
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of carol
Corpus desk
Index EN-caroling · caroling · English
caroling · rank #92,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,433
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH carioca
Nearest frequency peer: carioca (-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 “caroling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cannibalized
cannibalized
7,572 corpus weight
- Capernaum
Capernaum
7,571 corpus weight
- carabao
carabao
7,570 corpus weight
- carioca
carioca
7,569 corpus weight
- caroling
caroling
7,568 corpus weight
- carping
carping
7,565 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “caroling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caroling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkæɹəlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caroling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caroling is uncommon English at frequency #92,433 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkæɹəlɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of carol".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caroling, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 caroling, spelled C-A-R-O-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of carol
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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