curling
/ˈkəɹlɪŋ/
"curling" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“curling” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,731
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action or motion of something that curls or is curled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-curling · curling · English
curling · rank #14,731 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,731
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cuff
Nearest frequency peer: cuff (-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 “curling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cosmos
cosmos
85,274 corpus weight
- cuff
cuff
85,271 corpus weight
- curling
curling
85,270 corpus weight
- cyclone
cyclone
85,269 corpus weight
- dedicate
dedicate
85,268 corpus weight
- delusional
delusional
85,266 corpus weight
What this shows “curling” 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 | curling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkəɹlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “curling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around curling (IPA /ˈkəɹlɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,731 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for curling, with forms such as "ccurling", "cruling", and "culring". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Curtin", "cutting", "cycling", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is curling, spelled C-U-R-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The action or motion of something that curls or is curled.
- 2A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
curlings of smoke
a scornful curling of the lip
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccurling
- cruling
- culring
- curilng
- curlign
- curlingg
- curlinng
- curlling
- curlnig
- currling
- ucrling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curling - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "curling", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).