pickpocketing
"pickpocketing" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pickpocketing” is uncommon English (frequency #82,666 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,666
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of stealing from the pocket of a passerby; the crime committed by a pickpocket.
| 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) |
Where “pickpocketing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pickpocketing is uncommon English at frequency #82,666 among 46,516 “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.
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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Using “pickpocketing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-I-C-K-P-O-C-K-E-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.