coloring
"coloring" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coloring” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,118
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act or process which applies color.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coloring · coloring · English
coloring · rank #13,118 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,118
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH commence
Nearest frequency peer: commence (+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 “coloring”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cis
cis
86,886 corpus weight
- claw
claw
86,885 corpus weight
- coloring
coloring
86,883 corpus weight
- commence
commence
86,882 corpus weight
- compatibili…
compatibility
86,881 corpus weight
- conditional
conditional
86,880 corpus weight
What this shows “coloring” 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 | coloring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “coloring”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around coloring, anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,118 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for coloring, with forms such as "ccoloring", "clooring", and "colloring". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cooking", "cooling", "covering", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is coloring, spelled C-O-L-O-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An act or process which applies color.
- 2Any substance used to give color.
- 3The appearance as to color.
- 4A disguise or discoloration.
- 5An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coloring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Our cookies contain no artificial flavorings or colorings.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday a series of measures to phase out eight artificial food dyes and colorings from America's food supply by the end of next year. […] The proposal also outlined a commitment for companies to supply food for school lunches that does not include artificial dye…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoloring
- clooring
- colloring
- coloirng
- colorign
- coloringg
- colorinng
- colornig
- colorring
- colroing
- coolring
- ocloring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coloring - 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 "coloring", 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).