bicycling
"bicycling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bicycling” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,528. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,528
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of riding a bicycle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bicycling · bicycling · English
bicycling · rank #41,528 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,528
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Berber
Nearest frequency peer: Berber (-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 “bicycling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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bayside
58,476 corpus weight
- bento
bento
58,475 corpus weight
- Berber
Berber
58,474 corpus weight
- bicycling
bicycling
58,473 corpus weight
- binomial
binomial
58,472 corpus weight
- blackie
blackie
58,471 corpus weight
What this shows “bicycling” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bicycling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bicycling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around bicycling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,528 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of riding a bicycle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for bicycling, with forms such as "bbicycling", "bciycling", and "biccycling". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is bicycling, spelled B-I-C-Y-C-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of riding a bicycle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bicycling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepant…
It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbicycling
- bciycling
- biccycling
- biccyling
- bicyccling
- bicycilng
- bicyclign
- bicyclingg
- bicyclinng
- bicyclling
- bicyclnig
- bicylcing
- bicyycling
- biyccling
- ibcycling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bicycling - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bicycling", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).