disarming
"disarming" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disarming” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,257
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charming; likely to put one at ease.
Corpus desk
Index EN-disarming · disarming · English
disarming · rank #35,257 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,257
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH devilish
Nearest frequency peer: devilish (-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 “disarming”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- demography
demography
64,748 corpus weight
- Denham
Denham
64,747 corpus weight
- devilish
devilish
64,745 corpus weight
- disarming
disarming
64,744 corpus weight
- disloyal
disloyal
64,743 corpus weight
- dissociation
dissociation
64,741 corpus weight
What this shows “disarming” 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 | disarming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “disarming”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around disarming, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,257 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Charming; likely to put one at ease.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for disarming, with forms such as "ddisarming", "diasrming", and "disamring". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "discarding", "disabling", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is disarming, spelled D-I-S-A-R-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Charming; likely to put one at ease.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disarming appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a disarming smile
Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisarming
- diasrming
- disamring
- disarimng
- disarmign
- disarmingg
- disarminng
- disarmming
- disarmnig
- disarrming
- disraming
- dissarming
- dsiarming
- idsarming
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disarming - 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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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 (14 here; floor ≥5).