canvassing
"canvassing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“canvassing” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,555. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,555
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of one who canvasses or solicits.
Corpus desk
Index EN-canvassing · canvassing · English
canvassing · rank #33,555 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,555
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH canoeing
Nearest frequency peer: canoeing (-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 “canvassing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- calico
calico
66,449 corpus weight
- Camus
Camus
66,448 corpus weight
- canoeing
canoeing
66,447 corpus weight
- canvassing
canvassing
66,446 corpus weight
- capillary
capillary
66,445 corpus weight
- casanova
casanova
66,443 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “canvassing” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canvassing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canvassing” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around canvassing, anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,555 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of one who canvasses or solicits.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for canvassing, with forms such as "acnvassing", "canavssing", and "cannvassing". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 canvassing, spelled C-A-N-V-A-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who canvasses or solicits.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnvassing
- canavssing
- cannvassing
- canvasing
- canvasisng
- canvassign
- canvassingg
- canvassinng
- canvassnig
- canvsasing
- canvvassing
- cavnassing
- ccanvassing
- cnavassing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canvassing - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "canvassing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
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.