dabbling
"dabbling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dabbling” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,005
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act in which something is dabbled in
Corpus desk
Index EN-dabbling · dabbling · English
dabbling · rank #47,005 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,005
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH cupping
Nearest frequency peer: cupping (-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 “dabbling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Crompton
Crompton
53,000 corpus weight
- crone
crone
52,999 corpus weight
- crystallogr…
crystallography
52,998 corpus weight
- cupping
cupping
52,997 corpus weight
- dabbling
dabbling
52,996 corpus weight
- dabs
dabs
52,995 corpus weight
What this shows “dabbling” 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 | dabbling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dabbling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dabbling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,005 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An act in which something is dabbled in".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dabbling, with forms such as "adbbling", "dabbilng", and "dabblign". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "darling", "dubbing", "doubling", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is dabbling, spelled D-A-B-B-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An act in which something is dabbled in
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dabbling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] a "home album" filled with lovable McCartneyesque hummings and dabblings about love and romance and the joys of quotidian existence, as far removed in conception and execution from his last recording project (side two of Abbey Road) as you could imagine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adbbling
- dabbilng
- dabblign
- dabblingg
- dabblinng
- dabblling
- dabblnig
- dablbing
- dabling
- dbabling
- ddabbling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dabbling - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).