goading
"goading" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goading” is uncommon English (frequency #70,706 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,706
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which somebody is goaded.
Corpus desk
Index EN-goading · goading · English
goading · rank #70,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,706
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH glutinous
Nearest frequency peer: glutinous (-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 “goading”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Glengarry
Glengarry
29,301 corpus weight
- glimmering
glimmering
29,300 corpus weight
- glisten
glisten
29,299 corpus weight
- glutinous
glutinous
29,296 corpus weight
- goading
goading
29,295 corpus weight
- Goldsboro
Goldsboro
29,292 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “goading” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goading |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “goading” in English
Rare enough to double-check
goading is uncommon English at frequency #70,706 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which somebody is goaded.".
goading has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is goading, spelled G-O-A-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which somebody is goaded.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how goading appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This fact refutes the doctrine that the goadings of a guilty conscience in this life, constitute the only punishment for sin[…]
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).