angling
"angling" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“angling” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,450
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport.
Corpus desk
Index EN-angling · angling · English
angling · rank #28,450 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,450
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH amit
Nearest frequency peer: amit (-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 “angling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ambivalent
ambivalent
71,554 corpus weight
- amethyst
amethyst
71,553 corpus weight
- amit
amit
71,552 corpus weight
- angling
angling
71,551 corpus weight
- anil
anil
71,550 corpus weight
- antennae
antennae
71,549 corpus weight
What this shows “angling” 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 | angling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “angling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around angling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,450 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for angling, with forms such as "agnling", "anggling", and "angilng". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "arguing", "aging", "ageing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is angling, spelled A-N-G-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how angling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is a speciall point to have the sun and moon before you, for the very motion of the rod drives all pleasure from you, either by day or by night; in all your anglings, both with worms and flyes, there must be a great care of that.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agnling
- anggling
- angilng
- anglign
- anglingg
- anglinng
- anglling
- anglnig
- anlging
- anngling
- nagling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of angling - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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