chowing
/ˈt͡ʃaʊɪŋ/
"chowing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chowing” is uncommon English (frequency #83,115 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,115
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of chow
Corpus desk
Index EN-chowing · chowing · English
chowing · rank #83,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,115
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chortle
Nearest frequency peer: chortle (-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 “chowing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chell
chell
16,890 corpus weight
- chiding
chiding
16,889 corpus weight
- chortle
chortle
16,887 corpus weight
- chowing
chowing
16,886 corpus weight
- Chukchi
Chukchi
16,884 corpus weight
- Clairmont
Clairmont
16,883 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chowing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chowing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃaʊɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chowing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chowing is uncommon English at frequency #83,115 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈt͡ʃaʊɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of chow".
chowing has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is chowing, spelled C-H-O-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of chow
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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