chiding
/ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
"chiding" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chiding” is uncommon English (frequency #83,112 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,112
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of chide
Corpus desk
Index EN-chiding · chiding · English
chiding · rank #83,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,112
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chell
Nearest frequency peer: chell (-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 “chiding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chavs
chavs
16,892 corpus weight
- cheerily
cheerily
16,891 corpus weight
- chell
chell
16,890 corpus weight
- chiding
chiding
16,889 corpus weight
- chortle
chortle
16,887 corpus weight
- chowing
chowing
16,886 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chiding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chiding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chiding is uncommon English at frequency #83,112 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of chide".
Zero misspellings are on record for chiding in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is chiding, spelled C-H-I-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of chide
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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