chatGPT says:
"There isn’t any peer-reviewed or “official” dataset that reports prevalence of instinctual stackings by Enneagram type and wing. Major teachers (Chestnut, Narrative Enneagram) explain the 27 subtypes but don’t publish distribution tables. (Beatrice Chestnut, The Narrative Enneagram)
That said, a few community-run surveys have posted rough rankings by type/wing. Treat these as anecdotal and sample-biased, but they’re the only public breakdowns I could find:
What the informal surveys suggest
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Overall stacking frequency (all types, general claim): SP/SO > SO/SP > SP/SX > SO/SX > SX/SP > SX/SO. (Teacher blog; not a survey.) (Enneagrammer)
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Type 1
• SP/SO was “by far” the most common for 1 overall and “under both wings,” with SP/SO especially heavy in 1w9 vs more even in 1w2.
• SO/SP: much rarer in 1w9 (~7.7%) than 1w2 (~21.4%).
• SP/SX tied for second in 1w9; SO/SX lowest overall. (Tumblr) -
Type 2
• Clear front-runner SO/SX overall.
• SO/SP: common in 2w3, rare in 2w1.
• SX/SO: shows up more in 2w1 than 2w3.
• SX/SP: lowest. (Tumblr) -
Type 4
• SP/SX topped the combined results due to many 4w5 responses;
• SO/SX was most common for 4w3;
• No SP/SO responses among 4w3 in that sample. (Tumblr) -
Type 6
• Phobic 6 (p6) showed a strong correlation with SP/SO; little with SP/SX, SX/SP, SX/SO.
• For counterphobic 6w5, SX/SP came out most common in the (very small) sample.
• For counterphobic 6w7, ~80% were SP-blind (i.e., SO/SX or SX/SO), again from a tiny sample. (Tumblr) -
Type 7
• SO/SX ranked highest overall;
• SP/SX and SP/SO skewed more to 7w6;
• SO/SP was last for 7w6 in that set. (Tumblr) -
Type 8
• One survey ranked SX/SP highest and SP/SO lowest—but the author explicitly questioned the data quality and possible mistyping. (Use extreme caution here.) (Tumblr)
Bottom line
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There’s no reliable, large-scale prevalence map by stacking × wing. What exists are small, volunteer internet polls with likely selection and mistyping biases. Use them as tentative patterns, not facts. (The Narrative Enneagram, Beatrice Chestnut)


















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