coaling
"coaling" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coaling” is uncommon English (frequency #95,835 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,835
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The supplying of a ship or steam locomotive with coal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coaling · coaling · English
coaling · rank #95,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,835
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clunker
Nearest frequency peer: clunker (-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 “coaling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- clownish
clownish
4,169 corpus weight
- clozapine
clozapine
4,168 corpus weight
- clunker
clunker
4,167 corpus weight
- coaling
coaling
4,166 corpus weight
- cobby
cobby
4,164 corpus weight
- cochineal
cochineal
4,163 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coaling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coaling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coaling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coaling is uncommon English at frequency #95,835 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The supplying of a ship or steam locomotive with coal.".
coaling doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is coaling, spelled C-O-A-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The supplying of a ship or steam locomotive with coal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coaling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apart from brief intervals for watering and coaling, No. 2395 is continuously in steam each week from 4 a.m. on Monday until 3 a.m. on the following Sunday.
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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