shucking
"shucking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shucking” is uncommon English (frequency #92,069 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,069
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Removal of a shuck; usually:
Corpus desk
Index EN-shucking · shucking · English
shucking · rank #92,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,069
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SHTF
Nearest frequency peer: SHTF (-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 “shucking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shoeshine
shoeshine
7,937 corpus weight
- showerhead
showerhead
7,934 corpus weight
- SHTF
SHTF
7,933 corpus weight
- shucking
shucking
7,932 corpus weight
- shug
shug
7,931 corpus weight
- sickeningly
sickeningly
7,929 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shucking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shucking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shucking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shucking is uncommon English at frequency #92,069 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shucking, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is shucking, spelled S-H-U-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Removal of a shuck; usually:
- 2Removal of a shuck; usually:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shucking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We attended a corn shucking and two oyster shuckings.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).