adjusting
/əˈd͡ʒʌstɪŋ/
"adjusting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adjusting” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,977
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of adjust
Corpus desk
Index EN-adjusting · adjusting · English
adjusting · rank #10,977 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,977
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ADA
Nearest frequency peer: ADA (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “adjusting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- accredited
accredited
89,027 corpus weight
- accuse
accuse
89,026 corpus weight
- ADA
ADA
89,025 corpus weight
- adjusting
adjusting
89,024 corpus weight
- ample
ample
89,023 corpus weight
- analogy
analogy
89,022 corpus weight
What this shows “adjusting” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adjusting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈd͡ʒʌstɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “adjusting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around adjusting (IPA /əˈd͡ʒʌstɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,977 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of adjust".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for adjusting, with forms such as "addjusting", "adjjusting", and "adjsuting". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is adjusting, spelled A-D-J-U-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of adjust
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addjusting
- adjjusting
- adjsuting
- adjusitng
- adjussting
- adjustign
- adjustingg
- adjustinng
- adjustnig
- adjustting
- adjutsing
- adujsting
- ajdusting
- dajusting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adjusting - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).