breaking
/ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/
"breaking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breaking” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,854
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is broken.
Corpus desk
Index EN-breaking · breaking · English
breaking · rank #1,854 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,854
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bigger
Nearest frequency peer: bigger (-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 “breaking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- 2nd
2nd
98,150 corpus weight
- appreciate
appreciate
98,149 corpus weight
- bigger
bigger
98,148 corpus weight
- breaking
breaking
98,147 corpus weight
- discovered
discovered
98,146 corpus weight
- dont
dont
98,145 corpus weight
What this shows “breaking” 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 | breaking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “breaking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around breaking (IPA /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,854 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for breaking, with forms such as "bbreaking", "beraking", and "braeking". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "brewing", "breeding", "breathing", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 breaking, spelled B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is broken.
- 2A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
- 3A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
- 4Breakdancing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breaking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation […]
The urban dance genre includes breaking, waacking, and house dancing, among others.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbreaking
- beraking
- braeking
- breaikng
- breakign
- breakingg
- breakinng
- breakking
- breaknig
- brekaing
- brreaking
- rbeaking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of breaking - 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 "breaking", 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).