cavorting
"cavorting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cavorting” is uncommon English (frequency #80,305 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,305
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action of the verb to cavort
Corpus desk
Index EN-cavorting · cavorting · English
cavorting · rank #80,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,305
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cGMP
Nearest frequency peer: cGMP (+2 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 “cavorting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- carousing
carousing
19,702 corpus weight
- carwash
carwash
19,701 corpus weight
- catchup
catchup
19,699 corpus weight
- cavorting
cavorting
19,696 corpus weight
- cGMP
cGMP
19,694 corpus weight
- chandu
chandu
19,692 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cavorting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavorting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cavorting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cavorting is uncommon English at frequency #80,305 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The action of the verb to cavort".
cavorting doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 cavorting, spelled C-A-V-O-R-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The action of the verb to cavort
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cavorting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
‘… that your blithe inattention to your own dear grammatical mother’s cavortings with not one not two but over thirty Near Eastern medical attachés…?’
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).