devising
"devising" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“devising” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,018
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will
Corpus desk
Index EN-devising · devising · English
devising · rank #34,018 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,018
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Deuteronomy
Nearest frequency peer: Deuteronomy (-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 “devising”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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dehydrogenase
65,988 corpus weight
- Deirdre
Deirdre
65,987 corpus weight
- detest
detest
65,985 corpus weight
- Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy
65,984 corpus weight
- devising
devising
65,983 corpus weight
- disband
disband
65,979 corpus weight
What this shows “devising” 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 | devising |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “devising”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around devising, anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,018 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for devising, with forms such as "ddevising", "deivsing", and "deviisng". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dividing", "deciding", "defining", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 devising, spelled D-E-V-I-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how devising appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I take some kind of comfort in the inexhaustibility of the devisings of nature, that it can keep coming up with new things.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevising
- deivsing
- deviisng
- devisign
- devisingg
- devisinng
- devisnig
- devissing
- devsiing
- devvising
- dveising
- edvising
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devising - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "devising", 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).