distilling
"distilling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“distilling” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,662
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Distillation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-distilling · distilling · English
distilling · rank #40,662 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,662
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH divinely
Nearest frequency peer: divinely (+2 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 “distilling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- disintegrat…
disintegrating
59,343 corpus weight
- disown
disown
59,342 corpus weight
- distilling
distilling
59,339 corpus weight
- divinely
divinely
59,337 corpus weight
- dorky
dorky
59,336 corpus weight
- dormer
dormer
59,335 corpus weight
What this shows “distilling” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distilling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #40,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “distilling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around distilling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,662 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Distillation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for distilling, with forms such as "ddistilling", "disitlling", and "disstilling". 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 distilling, spelled D-I-S-T-I-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Distillation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how distilling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And so by repeating of these Dissolvings and Distillings, there will be at length produced divers small Attoms […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistilling
- disitlling
- disstilling
- distililng
- distiling
- distillign
- distillingg
- distillinng
- distillnig
- distliling
- disttilling
- ditsilling
- dsitilling
- idstilling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distilling - 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
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