clothing
/ˈkləʊðɪŋ/
"clothing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clothing” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,155
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of clothe
Corpus desk
Index EN-clothing · clothing · English
clothing · rank #3,155 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,155
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH circuit
Nearest frequency peer: circuit (-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 “clothing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- chart
chart
96,849 corpus weight
- circuit
circuit
96,847 corpus weight
- clothing
clothing
96,846 corpus weight
- complicated
complicated
96,845 corpus weight
- confused
confused
96,844 corpus weight
- consequences
consequences
96,843 corpus weight
What this shows “clothing” 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 | clothing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkləʊðɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “clothing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around clothing (IPA /ˈkləʊðɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,155 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of clothe".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for clothing, with forms such as "cclothing", "cllothing", and "clohting". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "clotting", "clowning", "clouding", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dres… The correct English form is clothing, spelled C-L-O-T-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of clothe
Etymology
From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclothing
- cllothing
- clohting
- clothhing
- clothign
- clothingg
- clothinng
- clothnig
- clotihng
- clotthing
- cltohing
- colthing
- lcothing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clothing - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clothing", 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).