delaying
"delaying" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“delaying” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,342
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A delay.
Corpus desk
Index EN-delaying · delaying · English
delaying · rank #17,342 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,342
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH deceived
Nearest frequency peer: deceived (-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 “delaying”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- deacon
deacon
82,662 corpus weight
- debuts
debuts
82,661 corpus weight
- deceived
deceived
82,660 corpus weight
- delaying
delaying
82,659 corpus weight
- dentistry
dentistry
82,658 corpus weight
- desks
desks
82,657 corpus weight
What this shows “delaying” 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 | delaying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “delaying”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around delaying, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,342 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A delay.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for delaying, with forms such as "ddelaying", "dealying", and "delaiyng". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "denying", "delving", "dealing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is delaying, spelled D-E-L-A-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A delay.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how delaying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.
However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get in Switzerland […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddelaying
- dealying
- delaiyng
- delayign
- delayingg
- delayinng
- delaynig
- delayying
- dellaying
- delyaing
- dleaying
- edlaying
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of delaying - 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 "delaying", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).