displaying

/dɪsˈpleɪ.ɪŋ/

//dɪsˈpleɪ.ɪŋ// verb

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"displaying" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“displaying” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,533. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,533
frequency rank, English
3,470
“D” headwords
16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of display

Corpus desk

Index EN-displaying · displaying · English

displaying · rank #11,533 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,533
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,470
  • PHOTO-FINISH disastrous

Nearest frequency peer: disastrous (-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 “displaying”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “displaying” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for displaying
PropertyValue
Headworddisplaying
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
IPA/dɪsˈpleɪ.ɪŋ/
Letters10
Frequency rank#11,533
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “displaying”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).displayinglands here:

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

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “disastrous” (#11,532), “drown” (#11,534), “defect” (#11,531). Among 3,470 “D” headwords, “displaying” is #11,533. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around displaying (IPA /dɪsˈpleɪ.ɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,533 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of display".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for displaying, with forms such as "ddisplaying", "dipslaying", and "dislpaying". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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 displaying, spelled D-I-S-P-L-A-Y-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of display

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddisplaying
  • dipslaying
  • dislpaying
  • dispalying
  • displaiyng
  • displayign
  • displayingg
  • displayinng
  • displaynig
  • displayying
  • displlaying
  • displyaing
  • dispplaying
  • dissplaying
  • dsiplaying
  • idsplaying

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of displaying - 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.

ddisplaying1dipslaying2dislpaying2dispalying2displaiyng2displayign2displayingg1displayinng1
Edit distance from "displaying"

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 "displaying"?
"displaying" is spelled D-I-S-P-L-A-Y-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is /dɪsˈpleɪ.ɪŋ/.
What does "displaying" mean?
As a verb, "displaying" means: present participle and gerund of display
What are common misspellings of "displaying"?
Common misspellings include "ddisplaying", "dipslaying", "dislpaying", "dispalying", "displaiyng". The correct spelling is "displaying".
How do you pronounce "displaying"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "displaying" is /dɪsˈpleɪ.ɪŋ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "displaying" come from?
"displaying" 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 "displaying", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

disastrous#11,532decreasing#11,530consortium#11,522simplified#11,463

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

controllers16 variantsscheduling16 variantscontingent16 variantssongwriter16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list