cockfighting
"cockfighting" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cockfighting” is uncommon English (frequency #83,122 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,122
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “cockfighting” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cockfighting is uncommon English at frequency #83,122 among 43,570 “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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Using “cockfighting”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-C-K-F-I-G-H-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.