dripping
/ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/
"dripping" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dripping” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #15,390 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,390
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
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) |
Where “dripping” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dripping is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,390 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “dripping”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-I-P-P-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “driving” - see the side-by-side comparison. dripping vs driving
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.