attending
/əˈtɛndɪŋ/
"attending" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“attending” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,210. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,210
- frequency rank, English
- 35,202
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-attending · attending · English
attending · rank #4,210 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,210
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 35,202
- PHOTO-FINISH arsenal
Nearest frequency peer: arsenal (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “attending”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- announcement
announcement
95,794 corpus weight
- arranged
arranged
95,793 corpus weight
- arsenal
arsenal
95,792 corpus weight
- attending
attending
95,791 corpus weight
- attracted
attracted
95,790 corpus weight
- biological
biological
95,789 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “attending” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | attending |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈtɛndɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “attending” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around attending (IPA /əˈtɛndɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,210 among 35,202 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for attending, with forms such as "atending", "atetnding", and "attedning". 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. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "attendant", "ascending", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From attend + -ing. The correct English form is attending, spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
- 2Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
- 3Attendant, concomitant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attending appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Because so much of the character's self-loathing is manifested around his sexuality — his need to degrade the women with whom he identifies, the almost compulsive need to seduce a straight male actor, his malignant neglect of his lover — the casting of a woman in the part doubles, or even quadruples the attending implications and ironies.
Etymology
From attend + -ing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atending
- atetnding
- attedning
- attendding
- attendign
- attendingg
- attendinng
- attendnig
- attenidng
- attennding
- attneding
- tatending
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attending - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "attending", 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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.