deepening
"deepening" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deepening” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,640. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,640
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of becoming deeper.
Corpus desk
Index EN-deepening · deepening · English
deepening · rank #22,640 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,640
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH deepen
Nearest frequency peer: deepen (-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 “deepening”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Daley
Daley
77,364 corpus weight
- debilitating
debilitating
77,363 corpus weight
- deepen
deepen
77,362 corpus weight
- deepening
deepening
77,361 corpus weight
- deprive
deprive
77,359 corpus weight
- Derry
Derry
77,358 corpus weight
What this shows “deepening” 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 | deepening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “deepening”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around deepening, anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,640 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of becoming deeper.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for deepening, with forms such as "ddeepening", "deeepning", and "deepeinng". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "depending", "deafening", "dampening", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is deepening, spelled D-E-E-P-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of becoming deeper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deepening appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Further examples of the same effect could be seen in sudden deepenings of depressions over the warmer than normal eastern Atlantic in the 1968-9 winter: the consequence was interruptions of the cold weather prevailing in Britain […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddeepening
- deeepning
- deepeinng
- deepenign
- deepeningg
- deepeninng
- deepennig
- deepenning
- deepneing
- deeppening
- depeening
- depening
- edepening
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of deepening - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).