cautioning
"cautioning" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cautioning” is uncommon English (frequency #70,549 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,549
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of giving a warning.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cautioning · cautioning · English
cautioning · rank #70,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,549
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Caz
Nearest frequency peer: Caz (+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 “cautioning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Carranza
Carranza
29,458 corpus weight
- cascaded
cascaded
29,457 corpus weight
- cautioning
cautioning
29,452 corpus weight
- Caz
Caz
29,451 corpus weight
- Ceballos
Ceballos
29,449 corpus weight
- Cellini
Cellini
29,448 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cautioning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cautioning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cautioning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cautioning is uncommon English at frequency #70,549 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of giving a warning.".
cautioning doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 cautioning, spelled C-A-U-T-I-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of giving a warning.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cautioning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Whilst the daylight lasted, he treated her cautionings with apparent indifference. The darkness of night is the time for fear. As the gloom of evening set in, he grew nervous.
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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