pickpocketing
"pickpocketing" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pickpocketing” is uncommon English (frequency #82,666 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,666
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of stealing from the pocket of a passerby; the crime committed by a pickpocket.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pickpocketing · pickpocketing · English
pickpocketing · rank #82,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,666
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH piecewise
Nearest frequency peer: piecewise (+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 “pickpocketing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Phillis
Phillis
17,339 corpus weight
- phonebook
phonebook
17,338 corpus weight
- physiograph…
physiographic
17,337 corpus weight
- pickpocketi…
pickpocketing
17,335 corpus weight
- piecewise
piecewise
17,334 corpus weight
- pillion
pillion
17,332 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pickpocketing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pickpocketing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #82,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pickpocketing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pickpocketing is uncommon English at frequency #82,666 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of stealing from the pocket of a passerby; the crime committed by a pickpocket.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pickpocketing, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 pickpocketing, spelled P-I-C-K-P-O-C-K-E-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of stealing from the pocket of a passerby; the crime committed by a pickpocket.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pickpocketing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Copperfield says he turned his pockets inside out to reveal nothing in them, even though he was carrying his passport, wallet and cellphone. "Call it reverse pickpocketing," Copperfield told The Palm Beach Post for Wednesday's editions.
The vast majority of crime in the capital is petty street crime, such as pickpocketing and “grab and runs.”
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); 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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).