boating
/ˈbəʊtɪŋ/
"boating" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boating” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,770
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-boating · boating · English
boating · rank #18,770 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,770
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blooms
Nearest frequency peer: blooms (-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 “boating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bloated
bloated
81,234 corpus weight
- blooming
blooming
81,233 corpus weight
- blooms
blooms
81,232 corpus weight
- boating
boating
81,231 corpus weight
- bonfire
bonfire
81,230 corpus weight
- bookings
bookings
81,229 corpus weight
What this shows “boating” 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 | boating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbəʊtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “boating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around boating (IPA /ˈbəʊtɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,770 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for boating, with forms such as "baoting", "bboating", and "boaitng". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boing", "boring", "boxing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: boat + -ing The correct English form is boating, spelled B-O-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
- 2In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.
Etymology
boat + -ing
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baoting
- bboating
- boaitng
- boatign
- boatingg
- boatinng
- boatnig
- boatting
- botaing
- obating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boating - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "boating", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).