assisting
/əˈsɪstɪŋ/
"assisting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“assisting” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,701. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,701
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of assist
Corpus desk
Index EN-assisting · assisting · English
assisting · rank #9,701 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,701
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH asses
Nearest frequency peer: asses (-2 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 “assisting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- amendments
amendments
90,304 corpus weight
- analyses
analyses
90,303 corpus weight
- asses
asses
90,302 corpus weight
- assisting
assisting
90,300 corpus weight
- axe
axe
90,298 corpus weight
- Baldwin
Baldwin
90,296 corpus weight
What this shows “assisting” 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 | assisting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈsɪstɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “assisting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around assisting (IPA /əˈsɪstɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,701 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of assist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for assisting, with forms such as "asissting", "asisting", and "assisitng". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "assistive", "assistant", "assessing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 assisting, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of assist
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asissting
- asisting
- assisitng
- assissting
- assistign
- assistingg
- assistinng
- assistnig
- assistting
- assitsing
- asssiting
- sasisting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assisting - 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 "assisting", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).