shaveling
"shaveling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shaveling” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shaveling · shaveling · English
shaveling · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shaveling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shaveling” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shaveling is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shaveling, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shave + -ling. The correct English form is shaveling, spelled S-H-A-V-E-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
- 2A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shaveling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Bonny times,” he said, “I have lived to see, when a lad of Earl Oslac’s blood is sent out of the land, a beggar and a wolf’s head, for playing a boy’s trick or two, and upsetting a shaveling priest.”
Etymology
From shave + -ling.
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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