coiling
/ˈkɔɪlɪŋ/
"coiling" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coiling” is uncommon English (frequency #66,567 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,567
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of coil
Corpus desk
Index EN-coiling · coiling · English
coiling · rank #66,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,567
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH commode
Nearest frequency peer: commode (+2 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 “coiling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chichi
chichi
33,441 corpus weight
- Chihiro
Chihiro
33,440 corpus weight
- circumventi…
circumvention
33,438 corpus weight
- coiling
coiling
33,434 corpus weight
- commode
commode
33,432 corpus weight
- contextually
contextually
33,427 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coiling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coiling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkɔɪlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coiling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coiling is uncommon English at frequency #66,567 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkɔɪlɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of coil".
Zero misspellings are on record for coiling in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is coiling, spelled C-O-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of coil
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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