commentating
"commentating" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commentating” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,388. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,388
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of commentate
Corpus desk
Index EN-commentating · commentating · English
commentating · rank #46,388 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #46,388
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH confidentially
Nearest frequency peer: confidentially (+3 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 “commentating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- clicker
clicker
53,619 corpus weight
- collation
collation
53,618 corpus weight
- commentating
commentating
53,613 corpus weight
- confidentia…
confidentially
53,610 corpus weight
- Confucianism
Confucianism
53,608 corpus weight
- connectedne…
connectedness
53,607 corpus weight
What this shows “commentating” 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 | commentating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #46,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “commentating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around commentating, averb. Corpus frequency is #46,388 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of commentate".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for commentating, with forms such as "ccommentating", "cmomentating", and "comemntating". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "commenting", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is commentating, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of commentate
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how commentating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For the radio audience he is commentating on the match.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommentating
- cmomentating
- comemntating
- comentating
- commenatting
- commenntating
- commentaitng
- commentatign
- commentatingg
- commentatinng
- commentatnig
- commentatting
- commenttaing
- commenttating
- commetnating
- commnetating
- ocmmentating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commentating - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "commentating", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).