contracting
"contracting" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“contracting” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,022. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,022
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
Corpus desk
Index EN-contracting · contracting · English
contracting · rank #12,022 · 18 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,022
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cooks
Nearest frequency peer: cooks (+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 “contracting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- chord
chord
87,982 corpus weight
- Clare
Clare
87,981 corpus weight
- contracting
contracting
87,979 corpus weight
- cooks
cooks
87,978 corpus weight
- corporal
corporal
87,977 corpus weight
- courtyard
courtyard
87,976 corpus weight
What this shows “contracting” 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 | contracting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “contracting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around contracting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,022 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for contracting, with forms such as "ccontracting", "cnotracting", and "conntracting". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "contraction", "contrasting", "contacting", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is contracting, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
- 2Work done on a contract basis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contracting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the contractings of his muscles
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontracting
- cnotracting
- conntracting
- conrtacting
- contarcting
- contraccting
- contracitng
- contractign
- contractingg
- contractinng
- contractnig
- contractting
- contratcing
- contrcating
- contrracting
- conttracting
- cotnracting
- ocntracting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contracting - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).