commuting
"commuting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“commuting” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,793
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - travel between home and workplace
Corpus desk
Index EN-commuting · commuting · English
commuting · rank #19,793 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,793
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH commemoration
Nearest frequency peer: commemoration (-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 “commuting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- clipped
clipped
80,211 corpus weight
- collide
collide
80,210 corpus weight
- commemorati…
commemoration
80,209 corpus weight
- commuting
commuting
80,208 corpus weight
- complexion
complexion
80,207 corpus weight
- compulsive
compulsive
80,206 corpus weight
What this shows “commuting” 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 | commuting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “commuting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around commuting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,793 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for commuting, with forms such as "ccommuting", "cmomuting", and "commtuing". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "competing", "computing", "comming", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is commuting, spelled C-O-M-M-U-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1travel between home and workplace
- 2travel by public transportation such as by jeepney
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commuting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The poet Geoffrey Grigson added an atmospheric 1950s gloss on these bizarre commutings [of seeds]: 'between Swindon and London you may see them often enough during the summer, the sunlight through the carriage window catching them as they float about in the thin smoke of cigarettes'.
It was cheaper to build both railways and suburbs to the south, and commuting - which Charles Pearson called 'oscillating' - began between the village of Greenwich and London Bridge. (The term 'commuting' is from America, and did not become established in Britain until the 1940s).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommuting
- cmomuting
- commtuing
- commuitng
- commutign
- commutingg
- commutinng
- commutnig
- commutting
- comumting
- comuting
- ocmmuting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of commuting - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "commuting", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).