cloying
/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/
"cloying" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cloying” is uncommon English (frequency #67,315 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,315
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of cloy
Corpus desk
Index EN-cloying · cloying · English
cloying · rank #67,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,315
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coalescing
Nearest frequency peer: coalescing (+1 rank slots)
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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 “cloying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chokehold
chokehold
32,692 corpus weight
- circ
circ
32,688 corpus weight
- cloying
cloying
32,686 corpus weight
- coalescing
coalescing
32,685 corpus weight
- cobweb
cobweb
32,684 corpus weight
- collegium
collegium
32,682 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cloying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cloying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cloying is uncommon English at frequency #67,315 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of cloy".
cloying has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: By surface analysis, cloy + -ing. The correct English form is cloying, spelled C-L-O-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of cloy
Etymology
By surface analysis, cloy + -ing.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).