clocking
"clocking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clocking” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,986
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A time measurement made according to a clock.
Corpus desk
Index EN-clocking · clocking · English
clocking · rank #33,986 · 13 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,986
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cloaked
Nearest frequency peer: cloaked (-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 “clocking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- circulatory
circulatory
66,019 corpus weight
- citrate
citrate
66,018 corpus weight
- climactic
climactic
66,017 corpus weight
- cloaked
cloaked
66,016 corpus weight
- clocking
clocking
66,015 corpus weight
- clotting
clotting
66,014 corpus weight
What this shows “clocking” 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 | clocking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “clocking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around clocking, anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,986 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A time measurement made according to a clock.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for clocking, with forms such as "cclocking", "clcoking", and "cllocking". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "coking", "closing", "cooking", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is clocking, spelled C-L-O-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A time measurement made according to a clock.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clocking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At all of the major “breakup” yards where the railroads unloaded and loaded freight — waterfront railyards, pier stations, and inland freight depots — teams conducted clockings, recording all movements of trains […]
He picked up the sheet of paper which showed the clockings of the two employees. He looked again at the clockings that Earrell had made and smiled to himself; on the fifth of the month, he had skipped his break completely […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclocking
- clcoking
- cllocking
- cloccking
- clocikng
- clockign
- clockingg
- clockinng
- clockking
- clocknig
- clokcing
- colcking
- lcocking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clocking - 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 "clocking", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).