driving
/ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ/
"driving" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“driving” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,335
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of drive
Corpus desk
Index EN-driving · driving · English
driving · rank #1,335 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,335
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drink
Nearest frequency peer: drink (-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 “driving”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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doctor
98,669 corpus weight
- doubt
doubt
98,668 corpus weight
- drink
drink
98,667 corpus weight
- driving
driving
98,666 corpus weight
- established
established
98,665 corpus weight
- facebook
facebook
98,664 corpus weight
What this shows “driving” 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 | driving |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “driving”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around driving (IPA /ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,335 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of drive".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for driving, with forms such as "ddriving", "dirving", and "driivng". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "drying", "driven", "divine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English dryvyng, drivende, from Old English drīfende, from Proto-Germanic *drībandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), equivalent to drive + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian drieuwend, West Frisian driuwend, Dutch d… The correct English form is driving, spelled D-R-I-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of drive
Etymology
From Middle English dryvyng, drivende, from Old English drīfende, from Proto-Germanic *drībandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), equivalent to drive + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian drieuwend, West Frisian driuwend, Dutch drijvend, German Low German drievend, German treibend, Swedish drivande.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddriving
- dirving
- driivng
- drivign
- drivingg
- drivinng
- drivnig
- drivving
- drriving
- drviing
- rdiving
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of driving - 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
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).