downloading
/ˈdaʊnloʊdɪŋ/
"downloading" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“downloading” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,203
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of download
Corpus desk
Index EN-downloading · downloading · English
downloading · rank #11,203 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,203
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH domination
Nearest frequency peer: domination (-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 “downloading”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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dietary
88,802 corpus weight
- dissertation
dissertation
88,801 corpus weight
- domination
domination
88,799 corpus weight
- downloading
downloading
88,798 corpus weight
- emission
emission
88,796 corpus weight
- Ethan
Ethan
88,795 corpus weight
What this shows “downloading” 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 | downloading |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdaʊnloʊdɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “downloading”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around downloading (IPA /ˈdaʊnloʊdɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,203 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of download".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for downloading, with forms such as "ddownloading", "donwloading", and "dowlnoading". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "downgrading", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is downloading, spelled D-O-W-N-L-O-A-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of download
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddownloading
- donwloading
- dowlnoading
- downlaoding
- downlloading
- downloadding
- downloadign
- downloadingg
- downloadinng
- downloadnig
- downloaidng
- downlodaing
- downnloading
- downolading
- dowwnloading
- dwonloading
- odwnloading
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of downloading - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).