commissioning
"commissioning" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commissioning” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,047
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of commission
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commissioning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #19,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “commissioning” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around commissioning, averb. Corpus frequency is #19,047 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of commission".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for commissioning, with forms such as "ccommissioning", "cmomissioning", and "comimssioning". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is commissioning, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-I-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of commission
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommissioning
- cmomissioning
- comimssioning
- comissioning
- commisioning
- commisisoning
- commissinoing
- commissioinng
- commissionign
- commissioningg
- commissioninng
- commissionnig
- commissionning
- commissoining
- commsisioning
- ocmmissioning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commissioning - 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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Using “commissioning”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-M-I-S-S-I-O-N-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.