coasting
"coasting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coasting” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #40,619 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #40,619
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
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) |
Where “coasting” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for coasting is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #40,619 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “coasting”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-A-S-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “coating” - see the side-by-side comparison. coasting vs coating
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.