claiming
/ˈkleɪmɪŋ/
"claiming" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“claiming” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,065. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,065
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of claim
Corpus desk
Index EN-claiming · claiming · English
claiming · rank #4,065 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,065
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH brave
Nearest frequency peer: brave (-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 “claiming”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- boom
boom
95,939 corpus weight
- boots
boots
95,938 corpus weight
- brave
brave
95,937 corpus weight
- claiming
claiming
95,936 corpus weight
- column
column
95,935 corpus weight
- commit
commit
95,934 corpus weight
What this shows “claiming” 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 | claiming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkleɪmɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “claiming”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around claiming (IPA /ˈkleɪmɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,065 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of claim".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for claiming, with forms such as "caliming", "cclaiming", and "claiimng". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "clawing", "climbing", "clapping", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 claiming, spelled C-L-A-I-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of claim
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how claiming appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It isn't that they are claiming they are right; they are claiming you are wrong.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- caliming
- cclaiming
- claiimng
- claimign
- claimingg
- claiminng
- claimming
- claimnig
- clamiing
- cliaming
- cllaiming
- lcaiming
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of claiming - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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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).