balding
"balding" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“balding” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,288
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-balding · balding · English
balding · rank #32,288 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,288
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Babel
Nearest frequency peer: Babel (-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 “balding”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- automata
automata
67,715 corpus weight
- Babel
Babel
67,714 corpus weight
- balding
balding
67,713 corpus weight
- ballon
ballon
67,712 corpus weight
- banding
banding
67,711 corpus weight
- Bannister
Bannister
67,710 corpus weight
What this shows “balding” 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 | balding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “balding”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around balding, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,288 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for balding, with forms such as "ablding", "badling", and "baldding". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bling", "basing", "baring", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is balding, spelled B-A-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] doing variations on Old Devil Moon on trumpet, backed by an aging hippy on drums, a stringbeany, college student type on upright bass, and a balding man in his fifties playing an effectively understated piano.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablding
- badling
- baldding
- baldign
- baldingg
- baldinng
- baldnig
- balidng
- ballding
- bbalding
- blading
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balding - 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 "balding", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).