dripping
/ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/
"dripping" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dripping” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,390
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dripping · dripping · English
dripping · rank #15,390 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,390
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH ecstasy
Nearest frequency peer: ecstasy (+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 “dripping”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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84,614 corpus weight
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DJs
84,613 corpus weight
- dripping
dripping
84,611 corpus weight
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ecstasy
84,610 corpus weight
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eighteenth
84,609 corpus weight
- eleventh
eleventh
84,608 corpus weight
What this shows “dripping” 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 | dripping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dripping”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dripping (IPA /ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,390 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dripping, with forms such as "ddripping", "dirpping", and "driping". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "driving", "dropping", "drooping", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dripping, spelled D-R-I-P-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
- 2The sound or action of something that drips.
- 3The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dripping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They were pleased because he was not above drinking a cup of tea with them, and when the dawn came and they were still waiting they offered him a slice of bread and dripping; he was not squeamish and could eat most things now with a good appetite.
Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddripping
- dirpping
- driping
- dripipng
- drippign
- drippingg
- drippinng
- drippnig
- drpiping
- drripping
- rdipping
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dripping - 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 "dripping", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).