pang of conscience
"pang-of-conscience" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pang of conscience” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pang of conscience |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pang of conscience” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pang of conscience is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.".
pang of conscience doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is pang of conscience, spelled P-A-N-G- -O-F- -C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is P-A-N-G- -O-F- -C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.