cricketing
"cricketing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cricketing” is uncommon English (frequency #52,247 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,247
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That plays cricket.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cricketing · cricketing · English
cricketing · rank #52,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,247
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH couplet
Nearest frequency peer: couplet (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cricketing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Cottrell
Cottrell
47,758 corpus weight
- countable
countable
47,757 corpus weight
- couplet
couplet
47,756 corpus weight
- cricketing
cricketing
47,754 corpus weight
- Curitiba
Curitiba
47,750 corpus weight
- curler
curler
47,749 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cricketing” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cricketing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cricketing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cricketing is uncommon English at frequency #52,247 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That plays cricket.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cricketing, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cricketing, spelled C-R-I-C-K-E-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That plays cricket.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cricketing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The cricketing twins Sir Alec and Eric Bedser, who played for Surrey and England […]
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.