ageing
"ageing" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ageing” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,172. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,172
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of aging.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ageing · ageing · English
ageing · rank #16,172 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,172
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH admiralty
Nearest frequency peer: admiralty (-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 “ageing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- acquitted
acquitted
83,831 corpus weight
- admiralty
admiralty
83,830 corpus weight
- ageing
ageing
83,829 corpus weight
- aiding
aiding
83,828 corpus weight
- artificially
artificially
83,827 corpus weight
- ASA
ASA
83,826 corpus weight
What this shows “ageing” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ageing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ageing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ageing, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,172 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of aging.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ageing, with forms such as "aeging", "ageign", and "ageingg". 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 also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "agent", "aging", "asking", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is ageing, spelled A-G-E-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of aging.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ageing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The Tees Valley has ageing diesel trains that predate any form of emission control.
These two events have exposed the road haulage industry as being reliant on a poorly paid and ageing workforce, dependent on employees recruited from low-wage countries in Europe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aeging
- ageign
- ageingg
- ageinng
- agenig
- aggeing
- agieng
- gaeing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ageing - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ageing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).