spooning
"spooning" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spooning” is uncommon English (frequency #53,271 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,271
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of spoon
Corpus desk
Index EN-spooning · spooning · English
spooning · rank #53,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,271
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spindles
Nearest frequency peer: spindles (-2 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 “spooning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Snowdonia
Snowdonia
46,735 corpus weight
- soapbox
soapbox
46,734 corpus weight
- spindles
spindles
46,732 corpus weight
- spooning
spooning
46,730 corpus weight
- SSG
SSG
46,728 corpus weight
- standardisa…
standardisation
46,726 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spooning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spooning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spooning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spooning is uncommon English at frequency #53,271 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of spoon".
spooning doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: The sense denoting nestled repose is by metaphor with the way that spoons stack together compactly. The correct English form is spooning, spelled S-P-O-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of spoon
Etymology
The sense denoting nestled repose is by metaphor with the way that spoons stack together compactly.
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).