chanting
"chanting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chanting” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,561
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of chant
Corpus desk
Index EN-chanting · chanting · English
chanting · rank #12,561 · 13 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,561
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH carrot
Nearest frequency peer: carrot (-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 “chanting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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captains
87,443 corpus weight
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caravan
87,442 corpus weight
- carrot
carrot
87,441 corpus weight
- chanting
chanting
87,440 corpus weight
- Chevrolet
Chevrolet
87,439 corpus weight
- Clive
Clive
87,438 corpus weight
What this shows “chanting” 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 | chanting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “chanting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around chanting, averb. Corpus frequency is #12,561 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of chant".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for chanting, with forms such as "cahnting", "cchanting", and "chanitng". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "chasing", "coating", "Charing", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English chauntynge; equivalent to chant + -ing. The correct English form is chanting, spelled C-H-A-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of chant
Etymology
From Middle English chauntynge; equivalent to chant + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahnting
- cchanting
- chanitng
- channting
- chantign
- chantingg
- chantinng
- chantnig
- chantting
- chatning
- chhanting
- chnating
- hcanting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chanting - 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).