beaming
"beaming" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beaming” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,736
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beaming · beaming · English
beaming · rank #27,736 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,736
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bantu
Nearest frequency peer: Bantu (-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 “beaming”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- baker's
baker's
72,268 corpus weight
- banco
banco
72,267 corpus weight
- Bantu
Bantu
72,266 corpus weight
- beaming
beaming
72,265 corpus weight
- Benin
Benin
72,264 corpus weight
- BH
BH
72,262 corpus weight
What this shows “beaming” 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 | beaming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “beaming”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around beaming, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,736 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for beaming, with forms such as "baeming", "bbeaming", and "beaimng". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "being", "Bering", "beating", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is beaming, spelled B-E-A-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beaming appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more beaming and more happy, every day.
The beaming smile of David Brooks, proudly wearing his yellow Euro 2020 jersey and a bucket hat, instantly raised the spirits of those on the pitch who spotted the 25-year-old's frantic waving.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baeming
- bbeaming
- beaimng
- beamign
- beamingg
- beaminng
- beamming
- beamnig
- bemaing
- ebaming
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beaming - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).