hoeing
"hoeing" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hoeing” is uncommon English (frequency #70,749 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,749
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of digging, weeding, etc. with a hoe.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hoeing · hoeing · English
hoeing · rank #70,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,749
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hoar
Nearest frequency peer: hoar (-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 “hoeing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hird
hird
29,255 corpus weight
- histidine
histidine
29,254 corpus weight
- hoar
hoar
29,253 corpus weight
- hoeing
hoeing
29,252 corpus weight
- homebound
homebound
29,251 corpus weight
- homunculus
homunculus
29,250 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hoeing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoeing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hoeing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hoeing is uncommon English at frequency #70,749 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of digging, weeding, etc. with a hoe.".
hoeing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 hoeing, spelled H-O-E-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of digging, weeding, etc. with a hoe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hoeing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The field required frequent hoeings.
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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