docking
"docking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“docking” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,316. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,316
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of dock
Corpus desk
Index EN-docking · docking · English
docking · rank #19,316 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,316
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dodging
Nearest frequency peer: dodging (+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 “docking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- digestion
digestion
80,689 corpus weight
- dissatisfied
dissatisfied
80,687 corpus weight
- docking
docking
80,685 corpus weight
- dodging
dodging
80,684 corpus weight
- donut
donut
80,683 corpus weight
- doubting
doubting
80,682 corpus weight
What this shows “docking” 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 | docking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “docking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around docking, averb. Corpus frequency is #19,316 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for docking, with forms such as "dcoking", "ddocking", and "doccking". 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. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "doing", "doping", "dozing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dock + -ing. The correct English form is docking, spelled D-O-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of dock
- 2Culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry.
Etymology
From dock + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcoking
- ddocking
- doccking
- docikng
- dockign
- dockingg
- dockinng
- dockking
- docknig
- dokcing
- odcking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of docking - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "docking", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).