disintegrating

adj

"disintegrating" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“disintegrating” has 22 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,658. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,658
frequency rank, English
3,470
“D” headwords
22
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That causes disintegration.

Corpus desk

Index EN-disintegrating · disintegrating · English

disintegrating · rank #40,658 · 22 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #40,658
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 22 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,470
  • PHOTO-FINISH dishing

Nearest frequency peer: dishing (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “disintegrating”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “disintegrating” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

disintegrating vs disintegration
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for disintegrating
PropertyValue
Headworddisintegrating
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters14
Frequency rank#40,658
Misspellings tracked22
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “disintegrating” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).disintegratinglands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “dishing” (#40,657), “disown” (#40,659), “disengagement” (#40,656). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 22 spelling variants around disintegrating, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,658 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "That causes disintegration.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for disintegrating, with forms such as "ddisintegrating", "diisntegrating", and "disinetgrating". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "disintegration", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is disintegrating, spelled D-I-S-I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    That causes disintegration.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how disintegrating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "By means of the purple disintegrating rays, the site to be used later for agricultural purposes is treated exactly as is the canal proper."
  2. The city did not evolve up from the ground, it descended from Heaven; the me's, the divine laws which constitute the program for civilization, were carried by Inanna from the seat of Enki at Eridu to her beloved Erech (Uruk); without these divine laws, no city can hold together, no wall can stand against the disintegrating wind of the desert.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddisintegrating
  • diisntegrating
  • disinetgrating
  • disinntegrating
  • disintegarting
  • disinteggrating
  • disintegraitng
  • disintegratign
  • disintegratingg
  • disintegratinng
  • disintegratnig
  • disintegratting
  • disintegrrating
  • disintegrtaing
  • disintergating
  • disintgerating
  • disinttegrating
  • disitnegrating
  • disnitegrating
  • dissintegrating
  • dsiintegrating
  • idsintegrating

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disintegrating - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ddisintegrating1diisntegrating2disinetgrating2disinntegrating1disintegarting2disinteggrating1disintegraitng2disintegratign2
Edit distance from "disintegrating"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disintegrating"?
"disintegrating" is spelled D-I-S-I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-N-G.
What does "disintegrating" mean?
As an adjective, "disintegrating" means: That causes disintegration.
What words are commonly confused with "disintegrating"?
"disintegrating" is commonly confused with "disintegration". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "disintegrating" come from?
"disintegrating" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "disintegrating", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).

What to do next

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  • 22 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
  • Usage frequency rank #40,658 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list