ogling
"ogling" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ogling” is uncommon English (frequency #66,892 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,892
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action of the verb to ogle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ogling · ogling · English
ogling · rank #66,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,892
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH oink
Nearest frequency peer: oink (+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 “ogling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Oakleigh
Oakleigh
33,113 corpus weight
- obtrusive
obtrusive
33,111 corpus weight
- ogling
ogling
33,109 corpus weight
- oink
oink
33,108 corpus weight
- oligopoly
oligopoly
33,107 corpus weight
- opine
opine
33,103 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ogling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ogling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ogling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ogling is uncommon English at frequency #66,892 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action of the verb to ogle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ogling, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ogling, spelled O-G-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Action of the verb to ogle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ogling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The lady of his heart was his partner in the dance, and smiling graciously in reply to all his amorous oglings[…]
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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