blasting
"blasting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blasting” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,864
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of blast
Corpus desk
Index EN-blasting · blasting · English
blasting · rank #13,864 · 13 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,864
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blames
Nearest frequency peer: blames (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “blasting”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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86,140 corpus weight
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86,139 corpus weight
- blames
blames
86,138 corpus weight
- blasting
blasting
86,137 corpus weight
- bloke
bloke
86,136 corpus weight
- blond
blond
86,135 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “blasting” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | blasting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “blasting” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around blasting, averb. Corpus frequency is #13,864 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of blast".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for blasting, with forms such as "balsting", "bblasting", and "blasitng". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "blazing", "busting", "boating", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (present participle ending). The correct English form is blasting, spelled B-L-A-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of blast
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blasting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!
Etymology
From Middle English blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (present participle ending).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- balsting
- bblasting
- blasitng
- blassting
- blastign
- blastingg
- blastinng
- blastnig
- blastting
- blatsing
- bllasting
- blsating
- lbasting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blasting - 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 "blasting", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "blasting" maps to 17 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "blazing". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,864 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.