emerging
/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/
"emerging" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“emerging” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,214
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
Corpus desk
Index EN-emerging · emerging · English
emerging · rank #5,214 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,214
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH electronics
Nearest frequency peer: electronics (-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 “emerging”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- destiny
destiny
94,790 corpus weight
- distant
distant
94,789 corpus weight
- electronics
electronics
94,788 corpus weight
- emerging
emerging
94,787 corpus weight
- emotion
emotion
94,786 corpus weight
- emphasis
emphasis
94,785 corpus weight
What this shows “emerging” 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 | emerging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “emerging”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around emerging (IPA /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,214 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for emerging, with forms such as "eemrging", "emegring", and "emergging". 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, "emergent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: By surface analysis, emerge + -ing. The correct English form is emerging, spelled E-M-E-R-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how emerging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Etymology
By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eemrging
- emegring
- emergging
- emergign
- emergingg
- emerginng
- emergnig
- emerigng
- emerrging
- emmerging
- emreging
- meerging
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of emerging - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "emerging", 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).