dining
/ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/
"dining" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dining” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,674. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,674
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eating dinner as a social function.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dining · dining · English
dining · rank #5,674 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,674
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH deserved
Nearest frequency peer: deserved (-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 “dining”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- curve
curve
94,330 corpus weight
- depressed
depressed
94,329 corpus weight
- deserved
deserved
94,328 corpus weight
- dining
dining
94,327 corpus weight
- duration
duration
94,325 corpus weight
- Eddie
Eddie
94,324 corpus weight
What this shows “dining” 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 | dining |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dining”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dining (IPA /ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,674 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dining, with forms such as "ddining", "diinng", and "dinign". 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, "doing", "dying", "during", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is dining, spelled D-I-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Eating dinner as a social function.
- 2Entertaining someone to dinner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dining appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddining
- diinng
- dinign
- diningg
- dininng
- dinnig
- dinning
- dniing
- idning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dining - 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 "dining", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).