administering

noun

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"administering" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“administering” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,517
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords
20
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - administration

Corpus desk

Index EN-administering · administering · English

administering · rank #19,517 · 20 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,517
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 20 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH adjunct

Nearest frequency peer: adjunct (-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 “administering”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “administering” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for administering
PropertyValue
Headwordadministering
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Frequency rank#19,517
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “administering”

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).administeringlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “adjunct” (#19,516), “admiring” (#19,518), “abstraction” (#19,515). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “administering” is #19,517. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 20 spelling variants around administering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,517 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "administration".

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for administering, with forms such as "addministering", "adimnistering", and "admiinstering". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is administering, spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-E-R-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    administration

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how administering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. This "body to be cared for, protected, cultivated and preserved from the many dangers and contacts" required other bodies that would perform those nurturing services, providing the leisure for such self-absorbed administerings and self-bolstering acts.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addministering
  • adimnistering
  • admiinstering
  • adminisetring
  • adminisstering
  • administeirng
  • administerign
  • administeringg
  • administerinng
  • administernig
  • administerring
  • administreing
  • administtering
  • adminitsering
  • adminnistering
  • adminsitering
  • admministering
  • admniistering
  • amdinistering
  • daministering

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of administering - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

addministering1adimnistering2admiinstering2adminisetring2adminisstering1administeirng2administerign2administeringg1
Edit distance from "administering"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "administering"?
"administering" is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-E-R-I-N-G.
What does "administering" mean?
As a noun, "administering" means: administration
What are common misspellings of "administering"?
Common misspellings include "addministering", "adimnistering", "admiinstering", "adminisetring", "adminisstering". The correct spelling is "administering".
What language does "administering" come from?
"administering" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "administering", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list