shooing
"shooing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shooing” is uncommon English (frequency #98,713 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,713
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - The act by which somebody is shooed away.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shooing · shooing · English
shooing · rank #98,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,713
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shipwright
Nearest frequency peer: shipwright (-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 “shooing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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1,300 corpus weight
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1,296 corpus weight
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shii
1,291 corpus weight
- shipwright
shipwright
1,289 corpus weight
- shooing
shooing
1,288 corpus weight
- sideband
sideband
1,287 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shooing” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shooing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shooing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shooing is uncommon English at frequency #98,713 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which somebody is shooed away.".
Zero misspellings are on record for shooing in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is shooing, spelled S-H-O-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which somebody is shooed away.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shooing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And for all his shooings and worrying, he knew squirrels couldn't have done this kind of damage.
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 September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 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.