commenting
"commenting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commenting” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,151
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The making of a comment; commentary.
Corpus desk
Index EN-commenting · commenting · English
commenting · rank #9,151 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,151
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH combinations
Nearest frequency peer: combinations (-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 “commenting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- chooses
chooses
90,853 corpus weight
- Churchill
Churchill
90,852 corpus weight
- combinations
combinations
90,851 corpus weight
- commenting
commenting
90,850 corpus weight
- cone
cone
90,848 corpus weight
- connects
connects
90,847 corpus weight
What this shows “commenting” 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 | commenting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “commenting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around commenting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,151 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The making of a comment; commentary.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for commenting, with forms such as "ccommenting", "cmomenting", and "comemnting". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "competing", "commuting", "committing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is commenting, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The making of a comment; commentary.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how commenting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1921?, E. F. Benson, Our Family Affairs That eager reverence was like a lover's adoration: his interpretations might be fanciful, and such as he would never have made in any other commentings, but here his search for hidden meanings in simple phrases had just that quality […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommenting
- cmomenting
- comemnting
- comenting
- commenitng
- commennting
- commentign
- commentingg
- commentinng
- commentnig
- commentting
- commetning
- commneting
- ocmmenting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commenting - 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 "commenting", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).