colouring
"colouring" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“colouring” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,754
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of coloring.
Corpus desk
Index EN-colouring · colouring · English
colouring · rank #21,754 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,754
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH competes
Nearest frequency peer: competes (+2 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 “colouring”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- chronology
chronology
78,252 corpus weight
- clam
clam
78,251 corpus weight
- clientele
clientele
78,250 corpus weight
- colouring
colouring
78,247 corpus weight
- competes
competes
78,245 corpus weight
- conflicted
conflicted
78,243 corpus weight
What this shows “colouring” 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 | colouring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “colouring”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around colouring, anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,754 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative spelling of coloring.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for colouring, with forms such as "ccolouring", "cloouring", and "collouring". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "conjuring", "contouring", "coloring", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is colouring, spelled C-O-L-O-U-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of coloring.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colouring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.
In 2008, British health ministers agreed to phase out six artificial food colourings by 2009, while the European Union bans some colourings and requires warning labels on others.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolouring
- cloouring
- collouring
- coloruing
- colouirng
- colourign
- colouringg
- colourinng
- colournig
- colourring
- coluoring
- cooluring
- oclouring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colouring - 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 "colouring", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).