coasting
"coasting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coasting” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,619
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coasting · coasting · English
coasting · rank #40,619 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,619
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coastguard
Nearest frequency peer: coastguard (-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 “coasting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cine
cine
59,387 corpus weight
- coastguard
coastguard
59,383 corpus weight
- coasting
coasting
59,382 corpus weight
- cobble
cobble
59,381 corpus weight
- CoC
CoC
59,380 corpus weight
- colonisation
colonisation
59,379 corpus weight
What this shows “coasting” 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 | coasting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “coasting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around coasting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,619 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for coasting, with forms such as "caosting", "ccoasting", and "coasitng". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "coating", "counting", "crashing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is coasting, spelled C-O-A-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
- 2The act of disengaging the gears of a moving vehicle and rolling along without the use of engine power.
- 3A progression of symptoms after treatment, before gradual improvement begins.
- 4Drinking nolo drinks so as to imbibe less alcohol while still enjoying tippling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coasting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.
She had been lying quietly in the harbour and making little coasting trips ever since we arrived in her twelve months before.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- caosting
- ccoasting
- coasitng
- coassting
- coastign
- coastingg
- coastinng
- coastnig
- coastting
- coatsing
- cosating
- ocasting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coasting - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coasting", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).