condensing
"condensing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“condensing” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #44,703. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,703
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of condense
Corpus desk
Index EN-condensing · condensing · English
condensing · rank #44,703 · 16 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,703
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH committal
Nearest frequency peer: committal (-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 “condensing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- collard
collard
55,304 corpus weight
- committal
committal
55,301 corpus weight
- condensing
condensing
55,298 corpus weight
- conniving
conniving
55,295 corpus weight
- contemptuous
contemptuous
55,294 corpus weight
- Corvallis
Corvallis
55,292 corpus weight
What this shows “condensing” 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 | condensing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #44,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “condensing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around condensing, averb. Corpus frequency is #44,703 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of condense".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for condensing, with forms such as "ccondensing", "cnodensing", and "codnensing". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "convening", "confessing", "consenting", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is condensing, spelled C-O-N-D-E-N-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of condense
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how condensing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Russia, where experiments on a considerable scale have been made with condensing, the railways have the considerable advantage of a loading gauge 17 ft. high (the biggest in the world), as compared with the British 13 ft. or slightly over.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccondensing
- cnodensing
- codnensing
- conddensing
- condenisng
- condennsing
- condensign
- condensingg
- condensinng
- condensnig
- condenssing
- condesning
- condnesing
- conednsing
- conndensing
- ocndensing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of condensing - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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