behaving
"behaving" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“behaving” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,701. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,701
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Behaviour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-behaving · behaving · English
behaving · rank #14,701 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,701
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Beckham
Nearest frequency peer: Beckham (-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 “behaving”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- barking
barking
85,303 corpus weight
- Bauer
Bauer
85,302 corpus weight
- Beckham
Beckham
85,301 corpus weight
- behaving
behaving
85,300 corpus weight
- benign
benign
85,299 corpus weight
- Berkshire
Berkshire
85,298 corpus weight
What this shows “behaving” 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 | behaving |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “behaving”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around behaving, anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,701 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Behaviour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for behaving, with forms such as "bbehaving", "beahving", and "behaivng". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "behavior", "beheading", "beating", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is behaving, spelled B-E-H-A-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Behaviour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how behaving appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After that, he watched the semichivalrous behavings of the three English with quiet amusement; he thought Fielding had been incredibly silly and weak, and he was amazed by the younger people's want of proper pride.
For any such thing can play the role in an individual life which philosophers have thought could, or at least should, be played only by things which were universal, common to us all. It can symbolise the blind impress all our behavings bear.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbehaving
- beahving
- behaivng
- behavign
- behavingg
- behavinng
- behavnig
- behavving
- behhaving
- behvaing
- bheaving
- ebhaving
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of behaving - 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 "behaving", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).