cockfight
/ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/
"cockfight" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cockfight” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
Corpus desk
Index EN-cockfight · cockfight · English
cockfight · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cockfight |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cockfight” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cockfight is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cockfight, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cock + fight. The correct English form is cockfight, spelled C-O-C-K-F-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cockfight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost.
Etymology
From cock + fight.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.