hooting
/ˈhuːtɪŋ/
"hooting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hooting” is uncommon English (frequency #65,968 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,968
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of hoot
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hooting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈhuːtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hooting” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hooting is uncommon English at frequency #65,968 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈhuːtɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of hoot".
hooting has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hooting, spelled H-O-O-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of hoot
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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Using “hooting”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-O-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.