chowing
/ˈt͡ʃaʊɪŋ/
"chowing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chowing” is uncommon English (frequency #83,115 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,115
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of chow
| 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) |
Where “chowing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chowing is uncommon English at frequency #83,115 among 43,570 “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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Using “chowing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-O-W-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈt͡ʃaʊɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.