consenting
"consenting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“consenting” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,410. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,410
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Giving consent; agreeing to something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-consenting · consenting · English
consenting · rank #27,410 · 16 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,410
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH consummate
Nearest frequency peer: consummate (+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 “consenting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- coinage
coinage
72,594 corpus weight
- Connelly
Connelly
72,593 corpus weight
- consenting
consenting
72,591 corpus weight
- consummate
consummate
72,590 corpus weight
- contending
contending
72,589 corpus weight
- convene
convene
72,588 corpus weight
What this shows “consenting” 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 | consenting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “consenting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around consenting, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,410 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for consenting, with forms such as "cconsenting", "cnosenting", and "conesnting". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "convening", "consisting", "consulting", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is consenting, spelled C-O-N-S-E-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Giving consent; agreeing to something.
- 2Done with the consent of all parties involved.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consenting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The law prohibits payment for sex, even between consenting adults.
consenting sex
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsenting
- cnosenting
- conesnting
- connsenting
- consenitng
- consennting
- consentign
- consentingg
- consentinng
- consentnig
- consentting
- consetning
- consneting
- conssenting
- cosnenting
- ocnsenting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consenting - 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 "consenting", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).