catcalling
"catcalling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“catcalling” is uncommon English (frequency #69,719 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,719
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of giving a catcall.
Corpus desk
Index EN-catcalling · catcalling · English
catcalling · rank #69,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,719
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH categorisation
Nearest frequency peer: categorisation (+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 “catcalling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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Cannae
30,286 corpus weight
- carrol
carrol
30,285 corpus weight
- catcalling
catcalling
30,282 corpus weight
- categorisat…
categorisation
30,281 corpus weight
- Ceri
Ceri
30,279 corpus weight
- certificated
certificated
30,278 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “catcalling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catcalling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “catcalling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
catcalling is uncommon English at frequency #69,719 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of giving a catcall.".
Zero misspellings are on record for catcalling in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is catcalling, spelled C-A-T-C-A-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of giving a catcall.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how catcalling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the Room for Debate forum Stopping Street Harassment, the editors ask four people to weigh in on the question, Should current laws dealing with harassment be strengthened to include catcalling, or will that go too far in controlling speech and behavior? (A catcall in this context is defined as “a whistle, shout, or comment of a sexual nature to a woman…
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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