awakening
/əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/
"awakening" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“awakening” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,815
- frequency rank, English
- 35,202
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | awakening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “awakening” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around awakening (IPA /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,815 among 35,202 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for awakening, with forms such as "aawkening", "awaekning", and "awakeinng". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From awaken + -ing. The correct English form is awakening, spelled A-W-A-K-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting
Etymology
From awaken + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aawkening
- awaekning
- awakeinng
- awakenign
- awakeningg
- awakeninng
- awakennig
- awakenning
- awakkening
- awakneing
- awkaening
- awwakening
- waakening
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of awakening - 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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Using “awakening”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-W-A-K-E-N-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.