doling
"doling" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doling” is uncommon English (frequency #62,848 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,848
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who doles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doling · doling · English
doling · rank #62,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,848
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doty
Nearest frequency peer: doty (+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 “doling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dishonestly
dishonestly
37,158 corpus weight
- diz
diz
37,156 corpus weight
- doling
doling
37,153 corpus weight
- doty
doty
37,151 corpus weight
- downloader
downloader
37,150 corpus weight
- Dravidian
Dravidian
37,149 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “doling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “doling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
doling is uncommon English at frequency #62,848 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who doles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for doling in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is doling, spelled D-O-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who doles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alas! we talk of their vanity; we forget that, in doling forth the careless commendation, or as careless sneer, we are bestowing but the passing thought of a moment to that which has been the work of an existence.
Their charities never have been limited to the necessities of mere subsistence, like the secular dolings out of so-called modern charity.
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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