spooking
"spooking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spooking” is uncommon English (frequency #88,884 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,884
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A supernatural fright.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spooking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spooking” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
spooking is uncommon English at frequency #88,884 among 54,294 “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 spooking, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 spooking, spelled S-P-O-O-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A supernatural fright.
- 2The form of hole carding engaged in by a spook.
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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- The one correct English spelling is S-P-O-O-K-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.