drooling
/ˈdɹuːlɪŋ/
"drooling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drooling” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,129. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,129
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salivation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-drooling · drooling · English
drooling · rank #27,129 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,129
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doorbell
Nearest frequency peer: doorbell (-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 “drooling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- dismissive
dismissive
72,876 corpus weight
- doable
doable
72,874 corpus weight
- doorbell
doorbell
72,873 corpus weight
- drooling
drooling
72,872 corpus weight
- ducking
ducking
72,871 corpus weight
- eastbound
eastbound
72,868 corpus weight
What this shows “drooling” 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 | drooling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹuːlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “drooling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around drooling (IPA /ˈdɹuːlɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,129 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Salivation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for drooling, with forms such as "ddrooling", "doroling", and "droling". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dropping", "drowning", "drooping", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is drooling, spelled D-R-O-O-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Salivation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how drooling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pavlov referred to these premature droolings as “psychic” secretions, and he began to study why they occurred, in part to avoid future contamination of his digestion experiments.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddrooling
- doroling
- droling
- droloing
- drooilng
- droolign
- droolingg
- droolinng
- droolling
- droolnig
- drrooling
- rdooling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drooling - 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 "drooling", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).