buffering
"buffering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“buffering” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,887
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The use of a buffer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buffering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “buffering” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around buffering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,887 among 31,241 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The use of a buffer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for buffering, with forms such as "bbuffering", "bfufering", and "bufefring". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is buffering, spelled B-U-F-F-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The use of a buffer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuffering
- bfufering
- bufefring
- bufering
- buffeirng
- bufferign
- bufferingg
- bufferinng
- buffernig
- bufferring
- buffreing
- ubffering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buffering - 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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Using “buffering”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-U-F-F-E-R-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.