clotting
"clotting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clotting” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,987
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of clot
Corpus desk
Index EN-clotting · clotting · English
clotting · rank #33,987 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,987
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clocking
Nearest frequency peer: clocking (-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 “clotting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- 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
- Comstock
Comstock
66,011 corpus weight
What this shows “clotting” 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 | clotting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “clotting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around clotting, averb. Corpus frequency is #33,987 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of clot".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for clotting, with forms such as "cclotting", "cllotting", and "cloting". 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, "cutting", "coating", "clowning", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 clotting, spelled C-L-O-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of clot
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clotting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclotting
- cllotting
- cloting
- clotitng
- clottign
- clottingg
- clottinng
- clottnig
- cltoting
- coltting
- lcotting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clotting - 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 "clotting", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).