contesting
"contesting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“contesting” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,712
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who contests something; a disputation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-contesting · contesting · English
contesting · rank #24,712 · 16 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,712
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH consultative
Nearest frequency peer: consultative (-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 “contesting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- consented
consented
75,292 corpus weight
- constipation
constipation
75,291 corpus weight
- consultative
consultative
75,290 corpus weight
- contesting
contesting
75,289 corpus weight
- contraband
contraband
75,288 corpus weight
- cookery
cookery
75,287 corpus weight
What this shows “contesting” 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 | contesting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “contesting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around contesting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,712 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of one who contests something; a disputation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contesting, with forms such as "ccontesting", "cnotesting", and "conetsting". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "contrasting", "connecting", "consisting", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is contesting, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who contests something; a disputation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contesting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With regard to these disputes, doubts, and contestings, of the early and the later times of the Republic, I may be allowed to note this: that we may easily wonder how they could have been raised by persons not foreign to the city, but who belonged to those same families the members of which formed part of the government of the Republic.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontesting
- cnotesting
- conetsting
- conntesting
- contesitng
- contessting
- contestign
- contestingg
- contestinng
- contestnig
- contestting
- contetsing
- contseting
- conttesting
- cotnesting
- ocntesting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contesting - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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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).