coaxing
/ˈkəʊksɪŋ/
"coaxing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coaxing” is uncommon English (frequency #51,616 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,616
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of coax
Corpus desk
Index EN-coaxing · coaxing · English
coaxing · rank #51,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,616
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clostridium
Nearest frequency peer: clostridium (-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 “coaxing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- choosy
choosy
48,391 corpus weight
- Clarksburg
Clarksburg
48,388 corpus weight
- clostridium
clostridium
48,386 corpus weight
- coaxing
coaxing
48,385 corpus weight
- cockatoo
cockatoo
48,384 corpus weight
- Colm
Colm
48,382 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coaxing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coaxing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkəʊksɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coaxing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coaxing is uncommon English at frequency #51,616 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkəʊksɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of coax".
No generated misspelling entries exist for coaxing in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is coaxing, spelled C-O-A-X-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of coax
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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