cockfighting
"cockfighting" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cockfighting” is uncommon English (frequency #83,122 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,122
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cockfighting · cockfighting · English
cockfighting · rank #83,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,122
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cloche
Nearest frequency peer: cloche (-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 “cockfighting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Clairmont
Clairmont
16,883 corpus weight
- Cliftonville
Cliftonville
16,882 corpus weight
- cloche
cloche
16,880 corpus weight
- cockfighting
cockfighting
16,879 corpus weight
- codifying
codifying
16,878 corpus weight
- coit
coit
16,876 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cockfighting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cockfighting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #83,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cockfighting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cockfighting is uncommon English at frequency #83,122 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.".
cockfighting has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cokfytyng, kokkysfythynge; equivalent to cock + fighting. The correct English form is cockfighting, spelled C-O-C-K-F-I-G-H-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.
Etymology
From Middle English cokfytyng, kokkysfythynge; equivalent to cock + fighting.
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); 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).