coursing
"coursing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coursing” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,073
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sport of chasing wild animals, especially hares, with dogs by sight rather than by scent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coursing · coursing · English
coursing · rank #42,073 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,073
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH counterintuit…
Nearest frequency peer: counterintuitive (-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 “coursing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- contributory
contributory
57,931 corpus weight
- convective
convective
57,930 corpus weight
- counterintu…
counterintuitive
57,929 corpus weight
- coursing
coursing
57,928 corpus weight
- crowdsourci…
crowdsourcing
57,927 corpus weight
- crucify
crucify
57,926 corpus weight
What this shows “coursing” 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 | coursing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “coursing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around coursing, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,073 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The sport of chasing wild animals, especially hares, with dogs by sight rather than by scent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for coursing, with forms such as "ccoursing", "corusing", and "courisng". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cousin", "curing", "cousins", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is coursing, spelled C-O-U-R-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The sport of chasing wild animals, especially hares, with dogs by sight rather than by scent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coursing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Narracoorte was the great coursing centre of the district, and, I believe, of the colony.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoursing
- corusing
- courisng
- courrsing
- coursign
- coursingg
- coursinng
- coursnig
- courssing
- cousring
- cuorsing
- ocursing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coursing - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).