coming
/ˈkʌmɪŋ/
"coming" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coming” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #383. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #383
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of come
Corpus desk
Index EN-coming · coming · English
coming · rank #383 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #383
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH body
Nearest frequency peer: body (-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 “coming”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- single
single
99,621 corpus weight
- become
become
99,620 corpus weight
- body
body
99,619 corpus weight
- coming
coming
99,618 corpus weight
- control
control
99,617 corpus weight
- death
death
99,616 corpus weight
What this shows “coming” 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 | coming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkʌmɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “coming”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around coming (IPA /ˈkʌmɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #383 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of come".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for coming, with forms such as "ccoming", "cmoing", and "coimng". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cong", "cumin", "crying", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cominge, comynge, comande, from Old English cumende, from Proto-Germanic *kwemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -ing (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch komend (“coming”), G… The correct English form is coming, spelled C-O-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of come
Etymology
From Middle English cominge, comynge, comande, from Old English cumende, from Proto-Germanic *kwemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -ing (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch komend (“coming”), German kommend (“coming”), Swedish kommande (“coming”), Icelandic komandi (“coming”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoming
- cmoing
- coimng
- comign
- comingg
- cominng
- comnig
- ocming
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coming - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coming", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).