arresting
/əˈɹɛstɪŋ/
"arresting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“arresting” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,886
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - striking, gripping
Corpus desk
Index EN-arresting · arresting · English
arresting · rank #14,886 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,886
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH antibiotic
Nearest frequency peer: antibiotic (-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 “arresting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- annex
annex
85,118 corpus weight
- annexed
annexed
85,117 corpus weight
- antibiotic
antibiotic
85,116 corpus weight
- arresting
arresting
85,115 corpus weight
- augmented
augmented
85,114 corpus weight
- avid
avid
85,112 corpus weight
What this shows “arresting” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arresting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈɹɛstɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “arresting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around arresting (IPA /əˈɹɛstɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,886 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "striking, gripping".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for arresting, with forms such as "arersting", "aresting", and "arresitng". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 arresting, spelled A-R-R-E-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1striking, gripping
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arresting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arersting
- aresting
- arresitng
- arressting
- arrestign
- arrestingg
- arrestinng
- arrestnig
- arrestting
- arretsing
- arrseting
- raresting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arresting - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).