babysitting
"babysitting" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“babysitting” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,005
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of babysit
Corpus desk
Index EN-babysitting · babysitting · English
babysitting · rank #22,005 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,005
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH babysitter
Nearest frequency peer: babysitter (-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 “babysitting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- aswell
aswell
78,000 corpus weight
- B2B
B2B
77,998 corpus weight
- babysitter
babysitter
77,997 corpus weight
- babysitting
babysitting
77,996 corpus weight
- backlog
backlog
77,995 corpus weight
- Bengali
Bengali
77,993 corpus weight
What this shows “babysitting” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babysitting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #22,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “babysitting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around babysitting, averb. Corpus frequency is #22,005 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of babysit".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for babysitting, with forms such as "abbysitting", "babbysitting", and "babsyitting". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From babysit + -ing. The correct English form is babysitting, spelled B-A-B-Y-S-I-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of babysit
Etymology
From babysit + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbysitting
- babbysitting
- babsyitting
- babyistting
- babysiting
- babysititng
- babysittign
- babysittingg
- babysittinng
- babysittnig
- babyssitting
- babystiting
- babyysitting
- baybsitting
- bbabysitting
- bbaysitting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of babysitting - 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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "babysitting", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).