blending
/ˈblɛndɪŋ/
"blending" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blending” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,182
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of blend
Corpus desk
Index EN-blending · blending · English
blending · rank #16,182 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,182
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blackmail
Nearest frequency peer: blackmail (-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 “blending”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- berth
berth
83,822 corpus weight
- blackmail
blackmail
83,820 corpus weight
- blending
blending
83,819 corpus weight
- blindness
blindness
83,818 corpus weight
- bragging
bragging
83,817 corpus weight
- brightly
brightly
83,816 corpus weight
What this shows “blending” 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 | blending |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈblɛndɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “blending”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around blending (IPA /ˈblɛndɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,182 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of blend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for blending, with forms such as "bblending", "belnding", and "bledning". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "bonding", "breeding", "blessing", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English blendinge, equivalent to blend + -ing. The correct English form is blending, spelled B-L-E-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of blend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blending appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
Etymology
From Middle English blendinge, equivalent to blend + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblending
- belnding
- bledning
- blendding
- blendign
- blendingg
- blendinng
- blendnig
- blenidng
- blennding
- bllending
- blneding
- lbending
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blending - 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
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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).