alienating
"alienating" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alienating” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,811
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tending to alienate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alienating · alienating · English
alienating · rank #28,811 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,811
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aldridge
Nearest frequency peer: Aldridge (-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 “alienating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- afield
afield
71,193 corpus weight
- Aldrich
Aldrich
71,192 corpus weight
- Aldridge
Aldridge
71,191 corpus weight
- alienating
alienating
71,190 corpus weight
- alight
alight
71,189 corpus weight
- amazement
amazement
71,188 corpus weight
What this shows “alienating” 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 | alienating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “alienating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around alienating, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,811 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tending to alienate.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for alienating, with forms such as "ailenating", "aleinating", and "alieanting". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "alienation", "alternating", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is alienating, spelled A-L-I-E-N-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Tending to alienate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alienating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was something distinctly low-key, even wilfully alienating about the band’s performance. A scattering of OK Computer tracks were interspersed with more abstract latterday material – the clatter of 15 Step and Myxamatosis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailenating
- aleinating
- alieanting
- alienaitng
- alienatign
- alienatingg
- alienatinng
- alienatnig
- alienatting
- aliennating
- alientaing
- alineating
- allienating
- laienating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alienating - 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 "alienating", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).