stoking
"stoking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stoking” is uncommon English (frequency #50,823 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,823
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is stoked.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stoking · stoking · English
stoking · rank #50,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,823
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stevia
Nearest frequency peer: stevia (-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 “stoking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- statin
statin
49,181 corpus weight
- Stefanie
Stefanie
49,180 corpus weight
- stevia
stevia
49,179 corpus weight
- stoking
stoking
49,178 corpus weight
- studious
studious
49,177 corpus weight
- styrene
styrene
49,175 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stoking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stoking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stoking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stoking is uncommon English at frequency #50,823 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is stoked.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stoking in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 stoking, spelled S-T-O-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is stoked.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stoking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To prevent sudden changes in temperature from cracking the pots, the wood fire is built up slowly for several hours and then increased for four to five hours with intermittent stokings of scrap pine slabs.
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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