shampooing
/ʃamˈpuːɪŋ/
"shampooing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shampooing” is uncommon English (frequency #84,739 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,739
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of shampoo
Corpus desk
Index EN-shampooing · shampooing · English
shampooing · rank #84,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,739
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shabu
Nearest frequency peer: shabu (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shampooing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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15,271 corpus weight
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15,270 corpus weight
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sepoy
15,267 corpus weight
- shabu
shabu
15,263 corpus weight
- shampooing
shampooing
15,262 corpus weight
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shuriken
15,254 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shampooing” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shampooing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃamˈpuːɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shampooing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shampooing is uncommon English at frequency #84,739 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʃamˈpuːɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of shampoo".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shampooing, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 shampooing, spelled S-H-A-M-P-O-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of shampoo
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.