dogfighting
"dogfighting" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dogfighting” is uncommon English (frequency #85,185 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,185
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A blood sport in which dogs fight with one another.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dogfighting · dogfighting · English
dogfighting · rank #85,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,185
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dle
Nearest frequency peer: dle (-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 “dogfighting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- discontinua…
discontinuance
14,821 corpus weight
- disparaging…
disparagingly
14,818 corpus weight
- dle
dle
14,817 corpus weight
- dogfighting
dogfighting
14,816 corpus weight
- Dombrowski
Dombrowski
14,814 corpus weight
- domesticate
domesticate
14,812 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dogfighting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dogfighting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dogfighting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dogfighting is uncommon English at frequency #85,185 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dogfighting, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is dogfighting, spelled D-O-G-F-I-G-H-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A blood sport in which dogs fight with one another.
- 2Close combat between two military aircraft.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dogfighting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dogfighting is illegal in most countries.
Here, in fighter-pilot language, you're taught the real essential — dogfighting, man-against-man, plane-against-plane — and in a way they never taught us.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).